Do not let your heart envy sinners, but rather be zealous in fearing the Lord all the time.

Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

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

for it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than to put you lower before a prince, whom your eyes have seen.

for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will reward you.

Do not boast about tomorrow; for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

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

She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all of her household are clothed with scarlet.

then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.

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.

All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him – he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.

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

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;

If you say, “But we did not know about this,” does not the one who evaluates hearts consider? Does not the one who guards your life know? Will he not repay each person according to his deeds?

For as the churning of milk produces butter and as punching the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.

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!