¹ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise. ² The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provokes him to anger sins against his own soul. ³ It is a honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. ⁴ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore will he beg in harvest , and [have] nothing. ⁵ Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water but a man of understanding will draw it out. ⁶ Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? ⁷ The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. ⁸ A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes. ⁹ Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? ¹⁰ Divers weights , and various measures , both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. ¹¹ Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. ¹² The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them. ¹³ Love not sleep, in case you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread. ¹⁴ It is naught, it is naught, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts. ¹⁵ There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. ¹⁶ Take his garment that is guarantee for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. ¹⁷ Bread of deceit is sweet to a man but afterwards his mouth will be filled with gravel. ¹⁸ Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war. ¹⁹ He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips. ²⁰ Whoso curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in obscure darkness. ²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning but the end of it will not be blessed. ²² Say not you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he will save you. ²³ Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD and a false balance is not good. ²⁴ Man's goings are of the LORD how can a man then understand his own way? ²⁵ It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry. ²⁶ A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings the wheel over them. ²⁷ The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. ²⁸ Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy. ²⁹ The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head. ³⁰ The blueness of a wound cleans away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.