1Drinking a lot of wine or other strong drinks causes people to start fighting;
2Being afraid of a king when he is angry is like [SIM] being afraid of a lion when it growls/roars;
3People respect those who stay away from disputes/arguments;
4If a lazy man does not plow his fields at the right/proper time,
5Just as it is difficult to bring up water from a deep well, it is difficult to know what people are thinking,
6Many people proclaim that they can be trusted to do what they say that they will do,
7If parents conduct their lives as they should,
8A king who sits on his throne to judge people
9There is no one [RHQ] who can truthfully say, “I do not know of any wrong things that I have done;
10Yahweh detests people who use weights that are not right
11Even children show by what they do whether they are good or not;
12Two of the things that Yahweh has created for us
13If you want to sleep all the time, you will become poor;
14People look at things that they are about to buy, and in order to get it for a lower price sometimes they say, “◄It is no good/It is poor quality►,”
15Gold and precious stones are valuable,
16If you foolishly promise to a stranger that you will pay what he owes if he is unable to pay it [DOU],
17People may think that food that they acquire by doing what is dishonest will taste very good,
18When people give you good advice, if you do what they suggest, your plans will succeed;
19Those who go around telling gossip are always telling secrets to others;
20If someone curses his father or his mother,
21If you very quickly take the property that your parents promise will be yours after they die,
22Do not say, “I will do evil to those who do evil to me;”
23Yahweh detests those who use dishonest scales
24Yahweh is the one who has decided what will happen to us,
25You should think carefully before you solemnly promise to dedicate something to God,
26Wise kings find out [MET] which people have done what is wrong,
27Our consciences are like lamps that Yahweh has given to us to enable us to know what we are thinking [MET];
28Kings will continue to rule as long as they faithfully love their people and are loyal to them
29We honor/admire young people because they are strong,
30When we are beaten or whipped, it can cause us to quit doing what is evil in our lives;