² A king’s anger is like a lion’s roar;
    anyone who angers him forfeits his life.

⁴ A lazy person doesn’t plow in the proper^[a] season;
    he looks for a harvest, but there is nothing.

⁸ A king sits on a throne of justice,
    sifting out all sorts of evil with his glance.

¹² The ear that hears and the eye that sees—
    the Lord surely made them both.

¹⁴ “This is bad, bad,” says whoever is buying—
    but then he brags as he walks away after the sale.^[a]

¹⁶ Take the garment of anyone who puts up collateral for a stranger;
    hold it in pledge if he does it for an unfamiliar woman.

²⁶ A wise king sifts the wicked,
    crushing them with the threshing wheel.