1. Wine {is} a mocker, strong drink {is} raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.

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

3. {It is} an honor 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 on 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 {is} pure, and whether {it is} 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 thy eyes, {and} thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

14. {It is} naught, {it is} naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone, 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 tale-bearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

20. Whoever 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 of it 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 to 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 inquiry.

26. A wise king scatterreth 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 upheld 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.