For those who are upright will dwell [in the] land, and those who are blameless will remain in it.

And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land, and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.

The righteous one is forever; he will not be removed. But the wicked will not remain in the land.

He who works his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows worthless things lacks {sense}.

Better to live in a land of wilderness than [with] a wife of quarrels and provocation.

By the rebellion of a land, her rulers increase, but by a person of intelligence who knows justice, it will last.

By justice a king gives stability [to] a land, but a man of bribes will ruin it.

Sheol and barrenness of womb, the land is not satisfied [with] water, and fire does not say "enough!"

Her husband is known at the gates, in his seat among the elders of the land.