Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

A blow and contempt shall he find; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

To execute inventions is as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

The wise woman built her house but the foolish will pull it down with her hands.

The path of life [leads] upward for him who has insight, in order to turn away from Sheol below.

The slacker buries his hand in the bowl;
he doesn’t even bring it back to his mouth.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

The slacker buries his hand in the bowl;
he is too weary to bring it to his mouth.

Though you should pound a fool in a bowl with a bar in the midst of wheat, his foolishness will not depart from him.

The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.

Lest he drink, and forget that which is decreed, and alter the plea of any who are sorely oppressed.