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📚Wine is a mocker, strong drink rages✭, and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.
2 📚The fear of a king is like
the roaring of a lion;
whoever provokes him to anger
wrongs his own soul.
3 📚It is an honour for a man
to avoid strife,
but every fool will quarrel.
4 📚The lazy man will not plow because
of the cold;
therefore he will 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 each
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 who sits on the throne of judgment
dispels all evil with his eyes.
9 📚✭Who can say, “I have made my heart clean,
I am pure from my sin?”
10 📚✭Varying weights and
varying measures,
both of them alike are an abomination
to the LORD.
11 📚Even a child is known by his actions,
whether his deeds are pure and right.
12 📚The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
the LORD has made both of them.
13 📚Do not love sleep,
so that you do not come to poverty;
open your eyes, and you will have
enough food to be satisfied.
14 📚“It is nothing,
it is nothing!” says the buyer,
but when he has gone his way, then he boasts.
15 📚There is gold, and an abundance of rubies,
but the lips of knowledge are
a precious jewel.
16 📚Take the garment of the one
who puts up security for a stranger,
and take a pledge from him for
a strange woman.
17 📚✭Bread obtained by deceit is
sweet to a man,
but afterwards his mouth will be filled
with gravel.
18 📚Prepare plans by getting counsel,
and make war through good advice.
19 📚He who goes around as
a talebearer reveals secrets;
therefore have nothing to do with him
who flatters with his lips.
20 📚Whoever curses his father or his mother,
his lamp will be put out in deep darkness.
21 📚✭An inheritance may be
quickly obtained in the beginning,
but in the end it will not be blessed.
22 📚Do not say, “I will repay evil”, but
wait on the LORD, and he will save you.
23 📚✭Varying weights are an abomination
to the LORD,
and a false balance is not good.
24 📚✭Man’s steps are directed
by the LORD;
how then can a man understand his own way?
25 📚✭It is a snare for a man
to rashly dedicate what is holy,
and after vows to reconsider.
26 📚✭A wise king winnows the wicked,
and drives the threshing
wheel over them.
27 📚✭The spirit of man is the lamp
of the Lord,
searching all the inmost being.
28 📚Mercy and truth preserve the king,
and his throne is upheld by mercy.
29 📚The glory of young men is their strength,
and the beauty of old men is
the gray head.
30 📚✭Blows that wound cleanse away evil;
just so beatings cleanse
the inmost being.