when your fear comes as a wasting away, and your ruin comes like a tempest when trouble and pain come upon you.

Like the loving deer and pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be ravished always with her love.

so shall your poverty come as one who travels, and your need like an armed man.

He goes after her immediately, like an ox goes to the slaughter, or like a fool to the correction of the stocks;

Like vinegar to the teeth, and like smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

Like a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who turns aside discretion.

He who trusts in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall blossom like a branch.

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge; but he who hates correction is like a brute animal.

A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband, but she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones.

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

The way of the lazy one is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the righteous is made plain.

In the light of the king's face is life, and his favor is like a cloud of the latter rain.

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

An ungodly man plots evil, and his lips are like a burning fire.

A bribe is like a precious stone in the eyes of him who has it; wherever he turns, he is prudent.

The beginning of strife is like letting out water; therefore leave off fighting, before it breaks out.

A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.

A brother offended is like a strong city; and their disagreements are like the bars of a fortress.

The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion; but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Wisdom in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

At the last it bites like an asp and stings like an adder.

then your poverty comes stalking, and your want like a man armed with a shield.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Like cold snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to his senders; for he makes return to his master's soul.

A man boasting himself in a false gift is like clouds and wind, but no rain.

Trust in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

Like cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is like a troubled fountain and a rotten spring.

He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a broken down city without a wall.

Do not answer a fool according to his foolishness, lest you also be like him.

Great is the Former of all, but he who hires a fool is like one who hires one passing by.

He who passes by enraging himself over strife not his own is like one who takes a dog by the ears,

or like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death.

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken piece of pottery with silver waste.

A poor man who crushes the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

Like a roaring lion and a ranging bear, so is a wicked ruler over the helpless people.

Surely I am more like an animal than any man, and do not have the understanding of a man.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar.