Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife –

Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!

He will be beaten and despised, and his reproach will not be wiped away;

Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.

“I have fresh meat at home; today I have fulfilled my vows!

Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.

The righteous will never be moved, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.

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!

I constructed pools of water for myself, to irrigate my grove of flourishing trees.

It is better for you not to vow than to vow and not pay it.

I have seen personally what is the only beneficial and appropriate course of action for people: to eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all their hard work on earth during the few days of their life which God has given them, for this is their reward.

Let your clothes always be white, and do not spare precious ointment on your head.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much that is good.