Proverbs 22:5-7

Expanded Bible

⁵ Evil people’s lives are like paths covered with thorns and ·traps [nets].
People who guard themselves ·don’t have such problems [^Lstay far from them].

⁶ Train children ·to live the right way [^Lin their/or his path; ^Creferring either to children or to God],
and when they are old, they will not ·stray [depart] from it.

⁷ The rich rule over the poor,
and borrowers are ·servants [slaves] to lenders.