A violent person entices his neighbor, and leads him down a path that is terrible.

A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred blows on a fool.

A person with great anger bears the penalty, but if you deliver him from it once, you will have to do it again.

Bread gained by deceit tastes sweet to a person, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

The human spirit is like the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.

The wise person can scale the city of the mighty and bring down the stronghold in which they trust.

A wicked person shows boldness with his face, but as for the upright, he discerns his ways.

Do you see a person skilled in his work? He will take his position before kings; he will not take his position before obscure people.

for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

Do not say, “I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will pay him back according to what he has done.”

Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, “Was I not only joking?”

Like charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious person to kindle strife.

Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a person who wanders from his home.

As Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of a person are never satisfied.

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

A poor person who walks in his integrity is better than one who is perverse in his ways even though he is rich.

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

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

The one who reproves another will in the end find more favor than the one who flatters with the tongue.