1. WINE IS a mocker, strong drink a riotous brawler; and whoever errs or reels because of it is not wise. [Prov. 23:29, 30; Isa. 28:7; Hos. 4:11.]
2. The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger or angers himself against him sins against his own life.
3. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife and keep aloof from it, but every fool will quarrel.
4. The sluggard does not plow when winter sets in; therefore he begs in harvest and has nothing.
5. Counsel in the heart of man is like water in a deep well, but a man of understanding draws it out. [Prov. 18:4.]
6. Many a man proclaims his own loving-kindness and goodness, but a faithful man who can find?
7. The righteous man walks in his integrity; blessed (happy, fortunate, enviable) are his children after him.
8. A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows out all evil [like chaff] with his eyes.
9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? [I Kings 8:46; II Chron. 6:36; Job 9:30; 14:4; Ps. 51:5; I John 1:8.]
10. Diverse weights [one for buying and another for selling] and diverse measures–both of them are exceedingly offensive and abhorrent to the Lord. [Deut. 25:13; Mic. 6:10, 11.]
11. Even a child is known by his acts, whether [or not] what he does is pure and right.
12. The hearing ear and the seeing eye–the Lord has made both of them.
13. Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you will be satisfied with bread.