1. Wine makes a mocker, and beer a reveler, and whoever errs concerning them shall never be wise.
2. The fear of the king is as the roaring of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
3. It is an honour 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 he shall beg in harvest and have nothing.
5. Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of intelligence will draw it out.
6. Most men will proclaim each one his own mercy, but who can find a man of truth?
7. The just man who walks in his integrity, blessed shall be his sons after him.
8. A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
9. Who shall be able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
10. Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
11. Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work is pure and whether it is right.