| A good name is to be more desired than great wealth; Favor is better than silver and gold. | A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold. |
| The reward of humility and the fear of the Lord Are riches, honor, and life. | Humility is the fear of the Lord; its wages are riches and honor and life. |
| Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he grows older he will not abandon it. | Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it. |
| The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower becomes the lender’s slave. | The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender. |
