Proverbs 22:5-7

Good News Translation

⁵If you love your life, stay away from the traps that catch the wicked along the way.

⁶^(A)Teach children how they should live, and they will remember it all their life.

⁷Poor people are slaves of the rich. Borrow money and you are the lender's slave.

Proverbs 22:5-7

New International Version

⁵In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls,^(A)
but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.

⁶Start^(B) children off on the way they should go,^(C)
and even when they are old they will not turn from it.^(D)

⁷The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender.

⁵Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

⁶Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

⁷The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Good News Translation (GNT)

New International Version (NIV)