for they will provide a long and full life, and they will add well-being to you.

for the Lord will be the source of your confidence, and he will guard your foot from being caught in a trap.

It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly.

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down into the person's innermost being.

Beatings and wounds cleanse away evil, and floggings cleanse the innermost being.

Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.

The words of a gossip are like delicious morsels; they go down into a person's innermost being.

Surely I am more brutish than any other human being, and I do not have human understanding;