Like cold water to a weary soul,
So is good news from a distant land.

As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake [them], and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.

An excellent woman [one who is spiritual, capable, intelligent, and virtuous], who is he who can find her?
Her value is more precious than jewels and her worth is far above rubies or pearls.

Put away from you a deceitful mouth
And put devious speech far from you.

Keep your way far from her
And do not go near the door of her house,

Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:

All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ...

Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

The Lord is far from the wicked,
But He hears the prayer of the righteous.

Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone far off.

She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.