| 1 | Better the poor walking in integrity than one perverse of speech who is a fool. |
| 2 | Desire without knowledge is not good, and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way. |
| 3 | One’s own folly leads to ruin, yet the heart rages against the LORD. |
| 4 | Wealth brings many friends, but the poor are left friendless. |
| 5 | A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will not escape. |
| 6 | Many seek the favor of the generous, and everyone is a friend to a giver of gifts. |
| 7 | If the poor are hated even by their kin, how much more are they shunned by their friends! When they call after them, they are not there. |
| 8 | To get wisdom is to love oneself; to keep understanding is to prosper. |
| 9 | A false witness will not go unpunished, and the liar will perish. |
| 10 | It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes. |
| 11 | Those with good sense are slow to anger, and it is their glory to overlook an offense. |
| 12 | A king’s anger is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass. |
| 13 | A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain. |
| 14 | House and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD. |
| 15 | Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger. |
| 16 | Those who keep the commandment will live; those who are heedless of their ways will die. |
| 17 | Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and will be repaid in full. |
| 18 | Discipline your children while there is hope; do not set your heart on their destruction. |
| 19 | A violent tempered person will pay the penalty; if you effect a rescue, you will only have to do it again. |
| 20 | Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future. |
| 21 | The human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will be established. |
| 22 | What is desirable in a person is loyalty, and it is better to be poor than a liar. |
| 23 | The fear of the LORD is life indeed; filled with it one rests secure and suffers no harm. |
| 24 | The lazy person buries a hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to the mouth. |
| 25 | Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove the intelligent, and they will gain knowledge. |
| 26 | Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother are children who cause shame and bring reproach. |
| 27 | Cease straying, my child, from the words of knowledge, in order that you may hear instruction. |
| 28 | A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity. |
| 29 | Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools. |