² The ^[a]wrath of a king is like the roaring of a lion;
Whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own life.

^4 (A)The lazy man will not plow because of winter;
^(B)He will beg during harvest and have nothing.

⁸ A king who sits on the throne of judgment
Scatters all evil with his eyes.

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

¹⁴ “It is ^[a]good for nothing,” cries the buyer;
But when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

^16 (A)Take the garment of one who is surety for a stranger,
And hold it as a pledge when it is for a seductress.

^26 (A)A wise king sifts out the wicked,
And brings the threshing wheel over them.