Proverbs 10:1-5

¹The parables of Solomon. A wise son maketh glad his father; but a fond or foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

²Treasures of wickedness shall not profit; but rightfulness or rightwiseness shall deliver from death.

³The Lord shall not torment the soul of a just or rightwise man with hunger; and he shall destroy the treasons of unpious men.

⁴A slow hand hath wrought needi-ness; but the hand of strong men maketh ready riches. Forsooth he that enforceth or endeavoureth to get any-thing by leasings, feedeth the winds; soothly the same man pursueth birds flying or followeth flying birds.

⁵He that gathereth together in harvest, is a wise son; but he that sleepeth in summer, is a son of confusion.