20 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging:
    and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

² The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
    whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

³ It is an honour for a man to cease from strife:
    but every fool will be meddling.

⁴ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;
    therefore shall he 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 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness:
    but a faithful man who can find?

⁷ The just man walketh in his integrity:
    his children are blessed after him.

⁸ A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment
    scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

⁹ Who can say, I have made my heart clean,
    I am pure from my sin?

¹⁰ Divers weights, and divers measures,
    both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.

¹¹ Even a child is known by his doings,
    whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

¹² The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
    the Lord hath made even both of them.

¹³ Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty;
    open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

¹⁴ It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer:
    but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

¹⁵ There is gold, and a multitude of rubies:
    but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

¹⁶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger:
    and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

¹⁷ Bread of deceit is sweet to a man;
    but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

¹⁸ Every purpose is established by counsel:
    and with good advice make war.

¹⁹ He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets:
    therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

²⁰ Whoso curseth his father or his mother,
    his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning;
    but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

²² Say not thou, I will recompense evil;
    but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.

²³ Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord;
    and a false balance is not good.

²⁴ Man’s goings are of the Lord;
    how can a man then understand his own way?

²⁵ It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy,
    and after vows to make enquiry.

²⁶ A wise king scattereth the wicked,
    and bringeth the wheel over them.

²⁷ The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,
    searching all the inward parts of the belly.

²⁸ Mercy and truth preserve the king:
    and his throne is upholden by mercy.

²⁹ The glory of young men is their strength:
    and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

³⁰ The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil:
    so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.