² An angry king is like a ·roaring [growling] lion.
Making him angry may cost you your life.

⁴ Lazy farmers don’t plow ·when they should [^Lin the winter];
they ·expect [look for] a harvest, but there is none.

⁸ When a king sits on his throne to judge,
he ·knows evil when he sees it [or scatters evil with his eyes].

¹² The Lord has made both these things:
ears to hear and eyes to see.

¹⁴ Buyers say, “·This is bad. It’s no good [^LBad, bad].”
Then they go away and brag about what they bought.

¹⁶ Take the coat of someone who promises to pay a stranger’s debts,
and keep it until he pays what the ·stranger [^Lforeigner] owes.

²⁶ A wise king ·sorts out [winnows; scatters] the evil people,
and he ·punishes them as they deserve [^Lrolls a threshing sledge over them].