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