1
Wine [is] a scorner -- strong drink [is] noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.
2
The fear of a king [is] a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul.
3
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
4
Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.
5
Counsel in the heart of a man [is] deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up.
6
A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find?
7
The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!
8
A king sitting on a throne of judgment, Is scattering with his eyes all evil,
9
Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'
10
A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them [are] an abomination to Jehovah.