The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.

Wisdom is directly in front of the discerning person, but the eyes of a fool run to the ends of the earth.

It is terrible to punish a righteous person, and to flog honorable men is wrong.

The sluggard plunges his hand in the dish, and he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.

The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the creator of them both.

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

The eyes of the Lord guard knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless person.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”

The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.

Like legs that hang limp from the lame, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Like an archer who wounds at random, so is the one who hires a fool or hires any passer-by.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!”

Like a door that turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

The one who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

A king brings stability to a land by justice, but one who exacts tribute tears it down.

in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.

For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance.

rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.