so that she does not find the level path of life. Her ways are unstable, [and] she does not know.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.

till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice?

Transgression is not lacking in the multitude of words, but he who refrains his lips does wisely.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not intermeddle with its joy.

A scoffer does not like to be reproved. He will not go to the wise.

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

He who does violence to his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame and brings reproach.

There is he who covets greedily all the day long, but the righteous gives and does not withhold.

If thou say, Behold, we did not know this, Does not he who weighs the hearts consider it? And he who keeps thy soul, does he not know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?

The north wind brings forth rain. So does a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, so the curse that is causeless does not alight.

The door turns upon its hinges, so does the sluggard upon his bed.

For riches are not forever. And does the crown endure to all generations?

He who has an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not know that want shall come upon him.

There is a generation who curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

Sheol, and the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water, and the fire that does not say, Enough.

She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out by night.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.