As for a rod and reproof, they will give wisdom, but a neglected child is disgraced [by] his mother.

When evil men are in power, wrongdoing is increased; but the upright will have pleasure when they see their downfall.

Discipline your children, and they will give you rest, and they will give delight to your soul.

[There is] a generation--how lofty [are] their eyes! And their eyelids they will lift.

This peoples' teeth are swords, and with their jawbones they consume and devour the simple of the earth, and the poor from among men.

For the leech, [there are] two daughters; "Give, give!" [they cry]. As for three of these, they are not satisfied; as for four, they do not say enough.

The afterlife, the barren womb, earth that still demands water, and fire they never say, "Enough".

They three were wonderful above me; and four, I knew them not:

There are four things which are little upon the earth, But they are exceeding wise:

The ants are a people not strong, Yet they provide their food in the summer;

The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;

The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of them by bands;

Spiders can be caught by the hand, yet they're found in kings' palaces.

There are three things which are stately in their march,
Even four which are stately when they walk:

Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice due to any that is afflicted.

that they may drink it, and forget their misery and adversity.

Her sons rose up and they will call her happy; her husband, and he will praise her.

Give to her from the fruit of her hand, and may they praise her works in the city gates.