1. Just as with the dividing of the waters, so also is the heart of the king in the hand of the Lord. He shall bend it whichever way he wills.
2. Every way of a man seems right to himself. But the Lord weighs hearts.
3. To do mercy and judgment is more pleasing to the Lord than sacrifices.
4. To lift up the eyes is to enlarge the heart. The lamp of the impious is sin.
5. The intentions of the robust continually bring forth abundance. But all the lazy are continually in need.
6. Whoever gathers treasures by a lying tongue is vain and heartless. And he will stumble into the snares of death.
7. The robberies of the impious will drag them down, because they were not willing to do judgment.
8. The perverse way of a man is foreign. But whoever is pure: his work is upright.
9. It is better to sit in a corner of the attic, than with a contentious woman and in a shared house.