1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler;
2 The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
3 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife;
4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;
5 Counsel in the heart of man is
6 Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness;
7 A righteous man that walketh in his integrity,
8 A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment
9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean,
10 Diverse weights, and diverse measures,
11 Even a child maketh himself known by his doings,
12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty;
14 It is bad, it is bad, saith the buyer;
15 There is gold, and abundance of rubies;
16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger;
17 Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man;
18 Every purpose is established by counsel;
19 He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets;
20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother,
21 An inheritance
22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil:
23 Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah;
24 A man’s goings are of Jehovah;
25 It is a snare to a man rashly to say,
26 A wise king winnoweth the wicked,
27 The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah,
28 Kindness and truth preserve the king;
29 The glory of young men is their strength;
30 Stripes that wound cleanse away evil;