| 1 | A wise judge shall judge his people, and the government of a prudent man shall be steady. |
| 2 | As the judge of the people is himself, so also are his ministers: and what manner of man the ruler of a city is, such also are they that dwell therein. |
| 3 | An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people: and cities shall be inhabited through the prudence of the rulers. |
| 4 | The power of the earth is in the hand of God, and in his time he will raise up a profitable ruler over it. |
| 5 | The prosperity of man is in the hand of God, and upon the person of the scribe he shall lay his honour. |
| 6 | Remember not any injury done thee by thy neighbour, and do thou nothing by deeds of injury. |
| 7 | Pride is hateful before God and men: and all iniquity of nations is execrable. |
| 8 | A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits. |
| 9 | But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth and ashes proud? |
| 10 | There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels. |
| 11 | All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician. |
| 12 | The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is today, and tomorrow he shall die. |
| 13 | For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms. |
| 14 | The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God: |
| 15 | Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end. |
| 16 | Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them. |
| 17 | God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead. |
| 18 | God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath planted the humble of these nations. |
| 19 | The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath destroyed them even to the foundation. |
| 20 | He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed them, and hath made the memory of them to cease from the earth. |
| 21 | God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved the memory of them that are humble in mind. |
| 22 | Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for the race of women. |
| 23 | That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that seed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the Lord. |
| 24 | In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall they that fear the Lord, be in his eyes. |
| 25 | The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, and of the poor: |
| 26 | Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich. |
| 27 | The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than he that feareth God. |
| 28 | They that are free shall serve a servant that is wise: and a man that is prudent and well instructed will not murmur when he is reproved; and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured. |
| 29 | Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time of distress: |
| 30 | Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread. |
| 31 | My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert. |
| 32 | Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own soul? |
| 33 | The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear: and there is a man that is honoured for his wealth. |
| 34 | But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth? and he that is glorified in wealth, let him fear poverty. |
