The reward of humility and the [a]fear of the Lord
Are riches, honor and life.
(A)Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
He who guards himself will be far from them.
(B)Train up a child [b]in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:4 Or reverence
  2. Proverbs 22:6 Lit according to his way