Throw your lot in with us, and all of us will have one purse."

Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come back. I will pay you tomorrow," when you have cash with you.

he taught me and told me, "Let your heart fully embrace what I have to say; keep my commandments and live!

I have directed you in the way of wisdom, and I have led you along straight paths.

My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor, if you have agreed to a deal with a stranger,

then do this, my son, and deliver yourself, because you have come under your neighbor's control. Go, humble yourself! Plead passionately with your neighbor!

"I have given my peace offerings, and today I fulfilled my vows.

So listen to me, my sons, and pay attention to what I have to say.

"I'm calling to you, men! What I have to say pertains to all mankind!

Listen, because I have noble things to say, and what I have to say will reveal what is right.

Everything I have to say is just; there isn't anything corrupt or perverse in my speech.

Everything I say is sensible to someone who understands, and correct to those who have acquired knowledge.

"Come! Eat my food, and drink the wine that I have mixed.

It's better to be unimportant, yet have a servant, than to pretend to be important, but lack food.

Whoever tills his soil will have a lot to eat, but anyone who pursues fantasies lacks sense.

What the wise have to teach is a fountain of life and causes someone to avoid the snares of death.

What the wise have to say disseminates knowledge, but it's not in the heart of fools to do so.

The person who has great anger must pay the consequences, because if you rescue him, you will have to do it again.

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

It is a trap for a person to declare quickly, "This is sacred," and only later to have second thoughts about the vows.

The rich and the poor have this in common the LORD created both of them.

for it is pleasant when you treasure them within you and have them ready on your lips.

Have I not written for you 30 sayings containing counsel and knowledge,

If you don't have the ability to pay, why should your very bed be taken from under you?

Put a knife to your own throat, if you have a big appetite.

You'll vomit up what little you've eaten, and your compliments will have been wasted.

You will have enough goat's milk to drink and to supply your household needs, as well as sustenance for your servant girls.

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

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: the LORD gave them both eyes with which to see.

God, I have asked you for two things don't refuse me before I die

Some people view themselves as pure, but haven't been cleansed from their own filth.

Some people what an arrogant look they have! raise their eyebrows haughtily.

Some people have swords for teeth and knives for fangs to devour the afflicted from the earth and the needy from among mankind.

Locusts have no king, but they all swarm in ranks.

"Many women have done wonderful things," he says, "but you surpass all of them!"