² A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion;
anyone who provokes him endangers himself.^(A)

⁴ The slacker does not plow during planting season;^[a]
at harvest time he looks,^[b] and there is nothing.^(A)

⁸ A king sitting on a throne to judge
sifts out all evil with his eyes.^(A)

¹² The hearing ear and the seeing eye—
the Lord made them both.^(A)

¹⁴ “It’s worthless, it’s worthless!” the buyer says,
but after he is on his way, he gloats.

¹⁶ Take his garment,^[a]
for he has put up security for a stranger;
get collateral if it is for foreigners.^(A)

²⁶ A wise king separates out the wicked^(A)
and drives the threshing wheel^(B) over them.