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20 Drinking a lot of intoxicating drink causes people to start ridiculing and fighting others;
becoming drunk is very foolish.
2 When kings are terrifyingly angry, they frighten people like the roaring of young lions frightens people;
people who make kings angry cause themselves to die.
3 It is honorable to cease arguing with other people,
but all foolish people are eager to argue with others.
4 Lazy farmers do not plow their fields when they should plow their fields.
Then when it is time to harvest crops, they look for crops in their fields, but there are none.
5 Knowing what people are thinking and planning is as difficult as drawing water out of a deep well,
but discerning people are able to do so.
6 Many people claim that they are faithful individuals,
but very few people actually act faithfully!
7 Righteous people live honestly;
their children are very fortunate.
8 Ideally, kings who sit on their thrones in order to judge people
discern anything that is evil and remove it from their lands.
9 No one can truthfully say, “I do not think sinfully anymore; I do not sin anymore.”
10 Yahweh detests people dishonestly using both weights that differ and measurements that differ to benefit themselves.
11 Even young people show others who they are by what they do;
how they act shows whether they are innocent and right or not.
12 Yahweh has made both ears with which to hear and eyes with which to see.
13 If you sleep a lot, you will become poor;
but if you stay awake and work, you will have plenty of food.
14 Buyers claim that something is not good at all when they are bargaining with the seller about its price.
But after they buy it, they go and boast to their friends about the good thing that they bought.
15 Gold and precious jewels are plentiful,
but the knowledgeable things that people say are rare and precious.
16 Take the coats of people who promise to pay a loan for someone whom they do not know.
Indeed, hold onto the coats of people who do so for a foreigner because those people are not likely to repay those loans.
17 Food that people get by deceiving others may taste sweet to them at first,
but later what they have done will be as unpleasant to them as having a mouth full of rocks.
18 When people give you good advice, if you do what they suggest, your plans will succeed.
Therefore, let others advise you before you start fighting a war.
19 People who walk around gossiping tell others what is secret,
so avoid people who speak carelessly.
20 People who curse their parents
will die like an oil lamp that stops burning oil in a totally dark place.
21 If people inherit property hastily before the proper time,
they will ultimately not receive any blessing from it.
22 Do not say that you will harm someone who has harmed you.
Rather, wait for Yahweh to resolve the matter, so that he may vindicate you.
23 Yahweh detests people dishonestly using differing weights to benefit themselves.
Indeed, using weighing instruments in order to deceive others is very bad.
24 Yahweh directs what happens even to powerful people.
So then, no one can comprehend what will happen to him!
25 It is dangerous for people to declare thoughtlessly that they will dedicate something to Yahweh,
and then later regret that they have promised to do that.
26 Wise kings separate the wicked people from the good people
and then punish the wicked people severely.
27 Just as the light of a lamp penetrates into and illuminates a dark place, the life-breath that Yahweh puts into each person penetrates into the person’s inner being.
That breath is like the presence of Yahweh, who sees everything that is inside a person.
28 Being faithful and trustworthy makes kings safe.
Indeed, being faithful enables them to rule securely.
29 People admire young men because they are strong,
but people admire old men because they have become wise.
30 Flogging people for doing evil things can stop them from doing those evil things,
and hitting those people on the outside can change who they are on the inside.
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