1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.⇆ compare2The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.⇆ compare3It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.⇆ compare4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.⇆ compare5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.⇆ compare6Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?⇆ compare7The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.⇆ compare8A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.⇆ compare9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?⇆ compare10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.⇆ compare11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.⇆ compare12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.⇆ compare13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.⇆ compare14It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.⇆ compare15There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.⇆ compare16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.⇆ compare17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.⇆ compare18Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.⇆ compare19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.⇆ compare20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.⇆ compare21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.⇆ compare22Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.⇆ compare23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.⇆ compare24Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?⇆ compare25It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.⇆ compare26A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.⇆ compare27The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.⇆ compare28Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.⇆ compare29The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.⇆ compare30The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.⇆ compare