1Wine is a lecherous thing, and drunkenness is full of noise; whoever delighteth in these, shall not be wise.

2As the roaring of a lion, so and the dread of a king; he that stirreth him to ire, sinneth against his soul.

3It is honour to a man that separateth himself from strivings; but fond men be meddled [or fools shall be mingled] with despisings.

4A slow man would not ear for cold; therefore he shall beg in summer, and men shall not give to him.

5As deep water, so counsel is in the heart of a man; but a wise man shall draw it out.

6Many men be called merciful; but who shall find a faithful man?

7Forsooth a just [or rightwise] man that goeth in his simpleness, shall leave blessed sons after him.

8A king that sitteth in the seat of doom, destroyeth all evil by his looking.

9Who may say, Mine heart is clean; I am clean of sin?

10A weight, greater in buying, and a weight, lesser in selling, a measure and a measure, ever either is abominable at God.

11A child is understood by his studies, if his works be rightful [or right] and clean.

12An ear hearing, and an eye seeing, [or The hearing ear, and the seeing eye], God made ever either.

13Do not thou love sleep, lest needi-ness oppress thee; open thine eyes, and be thou [ful] filled with loaves.

14Each buyer saith, It is evil, it is evil; and when he hath gone away, then he shall have glory.

15Gold, and the multitude of gems, and a precious vessel, be the lips of knowing.

16Take thou away the cloth of him that was a borrow of another man; and for strangers take thou away a wed from him.

17The bread of a leasing, that is, gotten by a leasing, is sweet to a man; and afterward his mouth shall be filled with reckoning [or with little pebble stones].

18Thoughts be made strong by counsels; and battles shall be treated by governances.

19Be thou not meddled [or mingled] with him that showeth privates, and goeth guilefully, and alargeth his lips.

20The light of him that curseth his father and mother, shall be quenched in the midst of darknesses.

21Heritage to which men hasteth in the beginning, shall want blessing in the last time.

22Say thou not, I shall yield evil for evil; abide thou the Lord, and he shall deliver thee.

23Abomination with God is weight and weight; a guileful balance is not good.

24The steps of man be dressed of the Lord; who forsooth of men may understand his way?

25Falling of man is to make avow [or vow] to saints, and afterward to withdraw the vows.

26A wise king scattereth wicked men; and boweth a bow of victory, that is, a stone bow, over them.

27The lantern of the Lord is the spirit of man, that seeketh out all the privates of the womb.

28Mercy and truth keep a king; and his throne is made strong by meekness.

29The full out joying of young men is the strength of them; and the dignity of eld [or old] men is hoariness.

30The wanness of wound shall wipe away evils, and wounds in the privier things of the womb.