Proverbs 22:5-7

Contemporary English Version

⁵ Crooks walk down a road
full of thorny traps.
    Stay away from there!
^6 (A) Teach your children
    right from wrong,
and when they are grown
    they will still do right.
⁷ The poor are ruled by the rich,
and those who borrow
    are slaves of moneylenders.