1) Wine is mocking, strong drink is violent; and everyone who is carried away by them is foolish.
2) The king’s thunder is like the roar of a lion: whoever irritates him sins against himself.
3) It is an honor for a person to leave behind a quarrel; but every fool is perky.
4) The sloth does not plow in winter: he looks for it in the summer - and there is nothing.
5) Thoughts in a person’s heart are deep waters, but a reasonable person draws them out.
6) Many people praise a person for his mercy, but who finds a truthful person?
7) The righteous walks in his integrity: blessed are his children after him!
8) The king, sitting on the throne of judgment, disperses with his eyes all evil.
9) Who can say: “I have cleansed my heart, I am clean from my sin?”
10) Unequal scales, unequal measures, both are an abomination to the Lord.
11) You can even tell a boy by his activities whether his behavior is pure and correct.
12) The ear that hears and the eye that sees—the Lord created both.
13) Do not like to sleep, lest you become poor; keep your eyes open, and you will have your fill of bread.
14) “It’s bad, it’s bad,” says the buyer, and when he leaves, he boasts.
15) There is gold and many pearls, but prudent lips are precious utensils.
16) Take his dress, since he vouched for a stranger; and take a pledge from him for a third party.
17) Bread acquired by untruth is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth will be filled with debris.
18) Enterprises gain firmness through consultation, and by consultation wage war.
19) He who walks as a carrier reveals the secret; and whoever opens his mouth wide, do not communicate with him.
20) Whoever curses his father and his mother, his lamp will go out in the midst of deep darkness.
21) An inheritance hastily seized at the beginning will not be blessed later.
22) Do not say: “I will repay evil”; leave it to the Lord, and He will keep you.
23) Unequal weights and unbalanced scales are an abomination to the Lord—not good.
24) Man’s steps are directed from the Lord; How can a person know his path?
25) A snare for a person is to hastily make a vow, and after the vow to reflect.
26) A wise king will drive out the wicked and turn the wheel on them.
27) The lamp of the Lord is the spirit of man, testing all the depths of the heart.
28) Mercy and truth protect the king, and by mercy he upholds his throne.
29) The glory of young men is their strength, and the adornment of old men is gray hair.
30) Wounds from beatings are a cure against evil, and blows penetrating the insides of the womb.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru