[1]  Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

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[2]  The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.

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[3]  It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

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[4]  The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

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[5]  Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

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[6]  Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

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[7]  The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

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[8]  A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

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[9]  Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

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[10]  Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

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[11]  Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

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[12]  The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.

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[13]  Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

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[14]  It is naught, it is naught, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

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[15]  There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

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[16]  Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

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[17]  Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

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[18]  Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

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[19]  He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.

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[20]  Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

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[21]  An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

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[22]  Say not you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.

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[23]  Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

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[24]  Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

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[25]  It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

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[26]  A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.

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[27]  The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

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[28]  Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.

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[29]  The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.

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[30]  The blueness of a wound cleans away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

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