1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever wanders through them is not wise.
2
The terror of a king is like the roaring of a young lion. The one who provokes him sins against his own being.
3
It is honor for an ish to cease from contention, but every fool breaks out in strife.
4
The sluggard does not plow because of winter. At harvest he seeks, but there is nothing.
5
Counsel in the heart of an ish is like deep waters, but an ish of understanding draws it out.
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Many an Adam proclaims his own covenant-faithfulness, but a faithful ish— who can find?
7
The righteous walks in his integrity. Blessed are his sons after him.
8
A king sitting upon the Throne of Judgment scatters all evil with his eyes.
9
Who can say: “I have made my heart clean. I am pure from my sin”?
10
Unequal weights and unequal measures— both of them are an abomination to Yahuah.
11
Even a child makes himself known by his deeds, whether his work is pure and whether it is upright.
12
The hearing ear and the seeing eye— Yahuah has made them both.
13
Do not love sleep, lest you become poor. Open your eyes, and be satisfied with bread.
14
“Bad, bad,” says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts.
15
There is gold and abundance of jewels, but lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.
16
Take the garment of the one who became guarantor for a stranger, and hold him as pledge for a foreign ishah.
17
Bread of falsehood is sweet to an ish, but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
18
Plans are established by counsel, and by wise guidance make war.
19
The one who walks about as a slanderer reveals a secret. Therefore do not associate with one who opens his lips.
20
The one who curses his father or his mother— his lamp shall be extinguished in deepest darkness.
21
An Inheritance gained hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed at its end.
22
Do not say: “I will repay evil.” Wait for Yahuah, and He shall save you.
23
Unequal weights are an abomination to Yahuah, and deceitful scales are not good.
24
From Yahuah are the steps of a mighty ish. And Adam— how can he understand his own way?
25
It is a snare to Adam to rashly declare something holy and only afterward to examine his vows.
26
A wise king scatters the wicked and turns the wheel over them.
27
The ruach of Adam is the lamp of Yahuah, searching all the inward chambers of the belly.
28
Covenant-Faithfulness and truth guard a king, and by Covenant-Faithfulness his Throne is upheld.
29
The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of elders is gray hair.
30
Stripes of a wound cleanse away evil, and blows reach the inward chambers of the belly.