| 1 ¶ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
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| 2 ¶ The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
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| 3 ¶ It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
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| 4 ¶ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;1 therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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| 5 ¶ Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
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| 6 ¶ Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness:2 but a faithful man who can find?
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| 7 ¶ The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
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| 8 ¶ A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
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| 9 ¶ Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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| 10 ¶ Divers weights,3 and divers measures,4 both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
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| 11 ¶ Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
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| 12 ¶ The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
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| 13 ¶ Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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| 14 ¶ It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
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| 15 ¶ There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
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| 16 ¶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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| 17 ¶ Bread of deceit5 is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
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| 18 ¶ Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
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| 19 ¶ He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth6 with his lips.
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| 20 ¶ Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp7 shall be put out in obscure darkness.
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| 21 ¶ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
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| 22 ¶ Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
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| 23 ¶ Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false8 balance is not good.
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| 24 ¶ Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
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| 25 ¶ It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
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| 26 ¶ A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
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| 27 ¶ The spirit of man is the candle9 of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
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| 28 ¶ Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
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| 29 ¶ The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
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| 30 ¶ The blueness of a wound cleanseth10 away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
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