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1 Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
2 The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion: [whoso] provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own soul.
3 [It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
 - STRIFE
4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.
 - LAZINESS - POVERTY
5 Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
 - JOURNALING
6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
 - SELFISHNESS
7 The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.
 - BLESSING - GENERATIONAL
8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
 - SIN IN THE HEART
10 Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.
 - BUSINESS - UNGODLY
11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and whether [it be] right.
 - ACTIONS
12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
 - LAZINESS
14 [It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
 - BUYING AND SELLING
15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel.
16 Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
17 Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
 - FRAUD
18 [Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
 - COUNSEL - FROM OTHERS
19 He that goeth about [as] a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
 - GOSSIP
20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
 - PARENTS - HONOUR
21 An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
 - RICHES - DECEITFULNESS
22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
 - REVENGE
23 Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.
 - BUSINESS - UNGODLY
24 Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
 - SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD
25 [It is] a snare to the man [who] devoureth [that which is] holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
27 The spirit of man [is] the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
 - BIRTHING - SPIRITUAL - REVELATION - INWARD - SPIRIT OF MAN
28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
29 The glory of young men [is] their strength: and the beauty of old men [is] the gray head.
 - OLD AGE
30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly.
 - DEALINGS OF GOD - DEATH - LEG BREAKING