Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”

Severe discipline is for the one who abandons the way; the one who hates reproof will die.

who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.

Because I give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching.

All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him – he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.

Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; stop it before strife breaks out!

Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.