2. The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own life.
3. It is an honour for a man to keep aloof from strife: but every fool will be quarrelling.
4. The slothful will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall 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 wilt proclaim every one his own kindness: but a faithful man who can find?
7. A just man that walketh in his integrity, blessed are his children 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 alike are an abomination to the LORD.
11. Even a child maketh himself 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 abundance of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
16. Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pledge that is surety for strangers.