for her house sinks down to death
and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.

For the upright will inhabit the land,
and those of integrity will remain in it;

but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the treacherous uprooted from it.

before He made the land, the fields,
or the first soil on earth.

The one who works his land will have plenty of food,
but whoever chases fantasies lacks sense.

Good news from a distant land
is like cold water to a parched throat.

When a land is in rebellion, it has many rulers,
but with a discerning and knowledgeable person, it endures.

The one who works his land
will have plenty of food,
but whoever chases fantasies
will have his fill of poverty.

By justice a king brings stability to a land,
but a man who demands “contributions”
demolishes it.

There is a generation whose teeth are swords,
whose fangs are knives,
devouring the oppressed from the land
and the needy from among mankind.

Her husband is known at the city gates,
where he sits among the elders of the land.