Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.

The one who loves pleasure will be a poor person; whoever loves wine and anointing oil will not be rich.

Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Do not make friends with an angry person, and do not associate with a wrathful person,

Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

Likewise, know that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, you will have a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause does not come to rest.

Like one who grabs a wild dog by the ears, so is the person passing by who becomes furious over a quarrel not his own.

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

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

Evil people do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it all.

To show partiality is terrible, for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.

This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have not done wrong.”

Under three things the earth trembles, and under four things it cannot bear up:

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

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.

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?