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Proverbs 22:17-29 (JDV).

Proverbs 22:17 Listen closely, pay attention to the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge.
Proverbs 22:18 For it is pleasing if you keep them within you and if they are constantly on your lips.
Proverbs 22:19 I have instructed you today — even you — so that your confidence may be in Yahveh.
Proverbs 22:20 Haven’t I written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,
Proverbs 22:21 to teach you true and reliable words, so that you may give a dependable report to those who sent you?
Proverbs 22:22 Don’t rob a poor person because he is poor, and don’t crush the oppressed at the city gate,
Proverbs 22:23 for Yahveh will champion their cause and will rob the throat of those who rob them.
Proverbs 22:24 Don’t make friends with an angry person, and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered one,
Proverbs 22:25 or you will learn his ways and entangle your throat in a snare.
Proverbs 22:26 Don’t be one of those who enter agreements, who put up security for loans.
Proverbs 22:27 If you have nothing with which to pay, even your bed will be taken from under you.
Proverbs 22:28 Don’t move an ancient boundary marker that your fathers set up.
Proverbs 22:29 Do you see a person skilled in his work? He will stand in the presence of kings. He will not stand in the presence of the unknown.

Don’t

There are just some activities that a wise person does not take part in. THey harm others and they bring shame on those who do them. So don’t.