¹ Wine is a mocker,
strong drink is raging:
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

² The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

³ It is an 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 shall 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 walketh in his integrity:
his children are blessed after him.

⁸ A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment
scattereth 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 [weight, weight],
and divers measures, [measure, measure]
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 hath made even both of them.

¹³ Love not sleep,
lest thou come to poverty;
open thine eyes,
and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

¹⁴ It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer:
but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

¹⁵ There is gold, and a multitude of rubies:
but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

¹⁶ Take his garment that is surety 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 shall be filled with gravel.

¹⁸ Every purpose is established by counsel:
and with good advice make war.

¹⁹ He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets:
therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

²⁰ Whoso curseth his father or his mother,
his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning;
but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

²² Say not thou, I will recompense evil;
but wait on the LORD,
and he shall save thee.

²³ Divers weights [weight, weight] are an abomination unto 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 devoureth that which is holy,
and after vows to make enquiry.

²⁶ A wise king scattereth the wicked,
and bringeth 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 upholden 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 cleanseth away evil:
so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.