For [skillful and godly] wisdom will enter your heart
And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Do not enter the path of the wicked,
And do not go the way of evil men.

A false witness who breathes out lies [even half-truths],
And one who spreads discord (rumors) among brothers.

Do they not go astray who devise evil and wander from the way of righteousness?
But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.

The lazy man does not plow when the winter [planting] season arrives;
So he begs at the [next] harvest and has nothing [to reap].

If you have nothing with which to pay [another’s debt when he defaults],
Why should his creditor take your bed from under you?

Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property]
And do not go into the fields of the fatherless [to take what is theirs],

Your [drunken] eyes will see strange things
And your mind will utter perverse things [untrue things, twisted things].

Whoever is partner with a thief hates his own life;
He hears the curse [when swearing an oath to testify], but discloses nothing [and commits perjury by omission].

Under three things the earth is disquieted and quakes,
And under four it cannot bear up:

Under a servant when he reigns,
Under a [spiritually blind] fool when he is filled with food,