Tying a stone to a sling that's what giving honor to a fool is.

A thorn in the hand of a drunkard that's what a proverb quoted by a fool is.

Picking up a dog by the ears that's what someone is like who meddles in another's fight.

that's what someone is like who lies to his neighbor and then says, "I was joking, wasn't I?"

A clay vessel plated with a thin veneer of silver that's what smooth lips with a wicked heart are.

With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

Evil men have no knowledge of what is right; but those who go after the Lord have knowledge of all things.

Whoever misleads the upright along an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

A roaring lion and a charging bear that's what a wicked tyrant is over poor people.

He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.

The righteous person is concerned about the poor; but the wicked don't understand what they need to know.

A discourse by the faithful collector. This is what this valiant man declared to the God with me, to the God with me, who then prevailed:

I never acquired wisdom, but I know what the Holy One knows.

Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

Lest I be so full, I deny thee, and say, "What fellow is the LORD?" And lest I, being constrained through poverty, fall unto stealing and foreswear the name of my God.

Some people what an arrogant look they have! raise their eyebrows haughtily.

This is what an immoral woman is like: she eats, wipes her mouth, then says "I've done nothing wrong."

What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? and what, O son of my vows?

For they will drink and forget what is decreed,
And pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.