For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.

Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.

Although a righteous person may fall seven times, he gets up again, but the wicked will be brought down by calamity.

Fear the Lord, my child, as well as the king, and do not associate with rebels,

remove the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.

The one who robs his father and mother and says, “There is no transgression,” is a companion to the one who destroys.

When there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but the one who keeps the law, blessed is he!

A person’s pride will bring him low, but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor.

Whoever shares with a thief is his own enemy; he hears the oath to testify, but does not talk.

Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you are found guilty.

Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.

One who quarries stones may be injured by them; one who splits logs may be endangered by them.

If the snake should bite before it is charmed, the snake charmer is in trouble.

yet a fool keeps on babbling. No one knows what will happen; who can tell him what will happen in the future?

Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.

The Beloved about Her Lover: He brought me into the banquet hall, and he looked at me lovingly.

The Beloved to Her Lover: Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes, that ruin the vineyards – for our vineyard is in bloom.

My lover thrust his hand through the hole, and my feelings were stirred for him.

Too bad for the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.