For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence.

For [the] price of a woman, a prostitute, [is the] price of a loaf of bread, but the {woman belonging to a man} hunts precious life.

"Come, eat with my bread; drink with the wine I have mixed.

"Stolen waters are sweet, and bread of secrecy is pleasant."

Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it [causes] a break in spirit.

Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes [and] have plenty bread.

Bread gained by deceit is sweet for the man, but afterward, his mouth will be filled [with] gravel.

He [who] {is generous} will be blessed, for he gives to the poor from his [own] bread.

Do not eat the bread of {the stingy}, and do not desire his delicacies.

{With patience} a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.

If your enemy [is] hungry, feed him bread, and if thirsty, let him drink water.

He who tills his ground will have plenty bread, but he who follows fantasies will have plenty [of] poverty.

{Showing partiality} [is] not good, and over a morsel of bread, a strong man will do wrong.

She looks after the ways of her household, and the bread of idleness she will not eat.