¹Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler;

whoever is seduced by it is not wise.

²The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion;[#Pr 19:12]

he who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

³It is an honor for a man to cease from strife,[#Pr 17:14]

but any fool is quick to quarrel.

⁴The sluggard will not plow in season;[#Pr 10:4]

he will beg at harvest and have nothing.

⁵Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water,[#Pr 18:4]

but a man of understanding will draw it out.

⁶Many a man will proclaim each his own goodness,

but a loyal man, who can find?

⁷The righteous man walks in his integrity;

blessed are his children after him.

⁸A king who sits on the throne of judgment

winnows out all evil with his eyes.

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

I am cleansed from my sin”?

¹⁰Differing weights and differing measures,

both are an abomination to the Lord .

¹¹Even a child is known by his deeds,[#Mt 7:16]

whether his conduct be pure, and whether it be right.

¹²The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,

the Lord has made them both.

¹³Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty;[#Pr 6:9–11; 19:15]

open your eyes, and you will have enough bread.

¹⁴“It is no good, it is no good,” says the buyer,

but when he goes his way, then he boasts.

¹⁵There is gold and a multitude of rubies,

but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

¹⁶Take the garment of him who has put up security for a stranger,

and hold it as a pledge for a foreigner.

¹⁷The bread of deceit is sweet to a man,

but afterward is his mouth filled with gravel.

¹⁸Every purpose is established by counsel;

so by wise counsel wage war.

¹⁹He who goes about as a slanderer betrays secrets;[#Pr 11:13]

therefore associate not with the babbler.

²⁰He who vilifies his father or his mother,

his lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

²¹An inheritance gained at the beginning

will not be blessed at the end.

²²Do not say, “I will pay back evil.”[#Pr 24:29; 1Pe 3:9]

Wait on the Lord , and He will save you.

²³Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord ,[#Pr 20:10]

and scales of deceit are not good.

²⁴The steps of a man are directed by the Lord ;

how then can a man understand his own way?

²⁵It is a snare for a man to devote rashly a thing as holy,

and after making vows to reconsider his consecration.

²⁶A wise king winnows out the wicked,

and drives the threshing wheel over them.

²⁷The spirit of man is the light of the Lord ,[#1Co 2:11]

searching all the innermost depths of the heart.

²⁸Mercy and truth preserve the king,

and his throne is sustained by love.

²⁹The glory of young men is their strength,

but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.

³⁰The blows of a wound cleanse away evil,[#Pr 22:15]

so beatings purge the innermost depths of the heart.