20 Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler.
    Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
² The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion.
    He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
³ It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,
    but every fool will be quarreling.
⁴ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;
    therefore he shall 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 Many men claim to be men of unfailing love,
    but who can find a faithful man?
⁷ A righteous man walks in integrity.
    Blessed are his children after him.
⁸ A king who sits on the throne of judgment
    scatters away all evil with his eyes.
⁹ Who can say, “I have made my heart pure.
    I am clean and without sin?”
¹⁰ Differing weights and differing measures,
    both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
¹¹ Even a child makes himself known by his doings,
    whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
¹² The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
    Yahweh has made even both of them.
¹³ Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.
    Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
¹⁴ “It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer;
    but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
¹⁵ There is gold and abundance of rubies,
    but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
¹⁶ Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger;
    and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
¹⁷ Fraudulent food is sweet to a man,
    but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
¹⁸ Plans are established by advice;
    by wise guidance you wage war!
¹⁹ He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets;
    therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
²⁰ Whoever curses his father or his mother,
    his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
²¹ An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning,
    won’t be blessed in the end.
²² Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.”
    Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
²³ Yahweh detests differing weights,
    and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
²⁴ A man’s steps are from Yahweh;
    how then can man understand his way?
²⁵ It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication,
    then later to consider his vows.
²⁶ A wise king winnows out the wicked,
    and drives the threshing wheel over them.
²⁷ The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp,
    searching all his innermost parts.
²⁸ Love and faithfulness keep the king safe.
    His throne is sustained by love.
²⁹ The glory of young men is their strength.
    The splendor of old men is their gray hair.
³⁰ Wounding blows cleanse away evil,
    and beatings purge the innermost parts.