1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging:
2The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
3It is an honour for a man to cease from strife:
4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;
5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water;
6Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness:
7The just man walketh in his integrity:
8A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment
9Who can say, I have made my heart clean,
10Divers weights, and divers measures,
11Even a child is known by his doings,
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty;
14It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer:
15There is gold, and a multitude of rubies:
16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger:
17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man;
18Every purpose is established by counsel:
19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets:
20Whoso curseth his father or his mother,
21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning;
22Say not thou, I will recompense evil;
23Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord;
24Man’s goings are of the Lord;
25It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy,
26A wise king scattereth the wicked,
27The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,
28Mercy and truth preserve the king:
29The glory of young men is their strength:
30The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: