Ointment and incense make the heart rejoice, likewise the sweetness of one’s friend from sincere counsel.

If someone blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted as a curse to him.

If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.

The one who keeps the law is a discerning child, but a companion of gluttons brings shame to his parents.

When the righteous rejoice, great is the glory, but when the wicked rise to power, people are sought out.

Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, but whoever chases daydreams will have his fill of poverty.

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

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

There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Her husband is well-known in the city gate when he sits with the elders of the land.

for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you;

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.