For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.

She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

And you will groan when your life is ending,
When your flesh and your body are consumed;

She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.

He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; But the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean,
But much revenue [because of good crops] comes by the strength of the ox.

The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge [sifting it as chaff from the grain];
But the hearts of [shortsighted] fools are not so.

Better is an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

A wise king sifts out the wicked [from among the good]
And drives the [threshing] wheel over them [to separate the chaff from the grain].

By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

As the cold of snow in the time of grain-cutting, so is a true servant to those who send him; for he gives new life to the soul of his master.

Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear, and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered.

When the righteous are in authority and become great, the people rejoice;
But when the wicked man rules, the people groan and sigh.