Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.

Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with abundant advisers they are established.

The person who hears the reproof that leads to life is at home among the wise.

As for the one who repays evil for good, evil will not leave his house.

If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death.

Bloodthirsty people hate someone with integrity; as for the upright, they seek his life.

Who has ascended into heaven, and then descended? Who has gathered up the winds in his fists? Who has bound up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? – if you know!

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

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

“How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?

Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

She is more precious than rubies, and none of the things you desire can compare with her.

Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.

Esteem her highly and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.

Listen, my child, and accept my words, so that the years of your life will be many.

Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.

for they are life to those who find them and healing to one’s entire body.

Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths are unstable but she does not know it.

Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.