¹Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler .

Whoever is led astray by them is not wise .

²The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion .

He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life .

³It is an honour for a man to keep aloof from strife ,

but every fool will be quarrelling.

⁴The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter ;

therefore he shall beg in harvest , and have nothing .

⁵Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water ,

but a man of understanding will draw it out .

⁶Many men claim to be men of unfailing love ,

but who can find a faithful man?

⁷A righteous man walks in integrity .

Blessed are his children after him .

⁸A king who sits on the throne of judgement

scatters away all evil with his eyes .

⁹Who can say, “I have made my heart pure .

I am clean and without sin ”?

¹⁰Differing weights and differing measures,

both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD .

¹¹Even a child makes himself known by his doings ,

whether his work is pure , and whether it is right .

¹²The hearing ear , and the seeing eye ,

the LORD has made even both of them .

¹³Don’t love sleep , lest you come to poverty .

Open your eyes , and you shall be satisfied with bread .

¹⁴“It ’s no good, it ’s no good,” says the buyer ;

but when he is gone his way, then he boasts .

¹⁵There is gold and abundance of rubies ,

but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel .

¹⁶Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger ;

and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman .

¹⁷Fraudulent food is sweet to a man,

but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel .

¹⁸Plans are established by advice ;

by wise guidance you wage war !

¹⁹He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets ;

therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips .

²⁰Whoever curses his father or his mother,

his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness .

²¹An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning

won’t be blessed in the end.

²²Don’t say, “I will pay back evil .”

Wait for the LORD , and he will save you .

²³The LORD detests differing weights,

and dishonest scales are not pleasing .

²⁴A man ’s steps are from the LORD ;

how then can man understand his way ?

²⁵It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication,

then later to consider his vows .

²⁶A wise king winnows out the wicked ,

and drives the threshing wheel over them .

²⁷The spirit of man is the LORD ’s lamp ,

searching all his innermost parts .

²⁸Love and faithfulness keep the king safe.

His throne is sustained by love .

²⁹The glory of young men is their strength .

The splendour of old men is their grey hair .

³⁰Wounding blows cleanse away evil ,

and beatings purge the innermost parts .