Go to the ant, you lazy man! Observe its ways and become wise.

Whoever corrects a mocker invites only insult, and whoever rebukes the wicked will himself become stained.

The anger of a fool becomes readily apparent, but the prudent person overlooks an insult.

Whoever keeps company with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.

Do not love sleep or you'll become poor, keep your eyes open and you'll have plenty of food.

Plans of the persistent surely lead to productivity, but all who are hasty will surely become poor.

Pleasure lovers become poor; loving wine and oil doesn't bring riches.

Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.

because drunks and gluttons tend to become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

Whoever works his farmland will have abundant food, but whoever chases fantasies will become very poor.

When a ruler is listening to lies, all of his officials tend to become wicked.

If you pamper a servant from his childhood, later on he'll become ungrateful.

so that I don't become overfed and deny you by saying, "Who is the LORD?" or so that I don't become poor and steal, and then misuse the name of my God.

Under a slave when he becomes a king, a fool when he is overfed,