1. Wine is a mocker, beer is a brawler,and whoever staggers because of them is not wise.
2. A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion;anyone who provokes him endangers himself.
3. It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool can get himself into a quarrel.
4. The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.
5. Counsel in a man’s heart is deep water; but a man of understanding draws it out.
6. Many a man proclaims his own loyalty,but who can find a trustworthy man?
7. The one who lives with integrity is righteous; his children who come after him will be happy.
8. A king sitting on a throne to judgesifts out all evil with his eyes.
9. Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure;I am cleansed from my sin”?