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.
12
The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made both of them.
13
Do not love sleep lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes,
and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
14
It is bad, it is bad, the buyer says; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
15
There is gold and a multitude of precious stones, but the lips of wisdom are a precious vessel.
16
Take his garment that is surety
for a stranger, and take a pledge of him that is surety for a strange woman.
17
Bread of deceit
is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
18
Every thought must be ordered by counsel, and with intelligence war is made.
19
He that goes about
as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.
20
Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his fire shall be put out in obscure darkness.