2. The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whosoever provokes him to anger sins against his own life.
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 everyone his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
7. The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
8. A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?