Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying.

Keen insight wins favor, but the conduct of the unfaithful is harsh.

A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire.

Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which ruins kings.

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.

A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life.

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroys them.

When a wicked person dies, his expectation perishes, and the hope of his strength perishes.

With his speech the godless person destroys his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous will be delivered.

The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.

The wicked person desires a stronghold, but the righteous root endures.

The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.

A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.

Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.

Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

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

The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.