² The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion;
One who provokes him to anger ^[a](A)forfeits his own life.

⁴ The ^[a](A)lazy one does not plow after the autumn,
So he ^[b]begs during the harvest and has nothing.

^8 (A)A king who sits on the throne of justice
^[a]Disperses all evil with his eyes.

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

¹⁴ “Bad, bad,” says the buyer,
But when he goes his way, then he boasts.

¹⁶ Take his garment when he becomes guarantor for a stranger;
And for foreigners, seize a pledge from him.

²⁶ A ^(A)wise king scatters the wicked,
And ^[a]drives a ^(B)threshing wheel over them.