| 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. |