Proverbs

¹WINE IS a mocker, strong drink a riotous brawler; and whoever errs or reels because of it is not wise. [Prov. 23:29, 30; Isa. 28:7; Hos. 4:11.] ²The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger or angers himself against him sins against his own life. ³It is an honor for a man to cease from strife and keep aloof from it, but every fool will quarrel. ⁴The sluggard does not plow when winter sets in; therefore he begs in harvest and has nothing. ⁵Counsel in the heart of man is like water in a deep well, but a man of understanding draws it out. [Prov. 18:4.] ⁶Many a man proclaims his own loving-kindness and goodness, but a faithful man who can find? ⁷The righteous man walks in his integrity; blessed (happy, fortunate, enviable) are his children after him.