5
Counsel in the heart of man
is like deep water, but a man of intelligence will draw it out.
6
Most men will proclaim each one his own mercy, but who can find a man of truth?
7
The just
man who walks in his integrity, blessed
shall be his sons after him.
8
A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
9
Who shall be able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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.