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1 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 inquiry. | |
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. | |
