¹These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied.

²The weightiness of God is to conceal a word, and the weightiness of kings is to search out a word.

³The skies for height and the land for depth, and the heart of kings — there is no searching.

⁴Remove the dross from the silver, and a vessel comes out for the metalsmith.

⁵Remove the wicked from before the face of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

⁶Do not claim honor before the face of the king, and do not stand in the place of the great.

⁷For it is better to be told, "Come up here," than to be set low before the face of a noble, whom your eyes have seen.

⁸Do not go out quickly to contend, lest — what will you do at its end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

⁹Contend your dispute with your neighbor, and do not uncover the secret of another,

¹⁰Lest one who hears reprove you, and your evil report will not turn back.

¹¹Apples of gold in carved work of silver: a word spoken in its own circumstances.

¹²A ring of gold and an ornament of pure gold: one who reproves a wise person upon a listening ear.

¹³Like the cold of snow on a day of harvest is a faithful envoy to those who sent him, and he will restore the being of his masters.

¹⁴Mists and wind and no rain — such is a person who boasts of a gift of falsehood.

¹⁵In the length of anger a commander is persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks a bone.

¹⁶Honey you have found? Eat your sufficiency, lest you be surfeited with it and vomit it up.

¹⁷Make your foot rare at the house of your neighbor, lest he be surfeited with you and hate you.

¹⁸A mallet, a sword, and a sharpened arrow is a man who testifies against his neighbor as a false witness.

¹⁹A broken tooth and a slipped foot is confidence in one who acts treacherously in the day of distress.

²⁰One who takes away a garment on a cold day, vinegar on lye, is one who sings songs over a heart in misery.

²¹If one who hates you is hungry, feed him food; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,

²²for you are snatching up coals onto his head, and Yahweh will repay you.

²³The wind of the north brings forth rain, and a secret tongue brings angry faces.

²⁴Better to dwell on the corner of a roof than with a woman of quarrels in a house of companions.

²⁵Cool water on a weary being is a good report from a land far away.

²⁶A fouled spring and a ruined fountain is a righteous one who totters before the face of a wicked one.

²⁷To eat much honey is not good, and the searching out of their own weightiness is weightiness.

²⁸A city broken into, with no wall, is a man who has no restraint for his breath.