As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, so a person is proved by the praise he receives.

The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.

Blessed is the one who is always cautious, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into evil.

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

A faithful person will have an abundance of blessings, but the one who hastens to gain riches will not go unpunished.

The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.

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

The one who gives to the poor will not lack, but whoever shuts his eyes to them will receive many curses.

The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but whoever associates with prostitutes wastes his wealth.

The righteous person cares for the legal rights of the poor; the wicked does not understand such knowledge.

A fool lets fly with all his temper, but a wise person keeps it back.

Many people seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that one receives justice.

Remove falsehood and lies far from me; do not give me poverty or riches, feed me with my allotted portion of bread,

There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully.

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.

She considers a field and buys it; from her own income she plants a vineyard.

till an arrow pierces his liver – like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.

when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!