1. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
2. A man's fear of a king is like the roaring of a lion: he who provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
3. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
4. The sluggard will not plow because of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
5. The thoughts in the heart of man are 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. Varying weights, and varying measures, both of them are alike an 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, so that you do not come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
14. It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he has 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 the garment of him who is a guarantee for a stranger: and take a pledge from 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 goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.
20. He who curses 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. Do not say, I will repay evil; but wait for the LORD, and he shall save you.
23. Varying weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
24. Man's goings are from 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 afterwards vows to make inquiry.
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 heart.
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 cleanses away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the being.
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