A thief isn't despised if he steals to meet his needs when he is hungry,

Look! A woman makes her way to meet him, dressed as a prostitute and intending to entrap him.

Therefore, I've come out to meet you, I've looked just for you, and I found you!

On top of the highest places along the road she stands where the roads meet.

"The LORD made me as he began his planning, before his ancient activity commenced.

Even though he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the world's first grains of dust,

when he made the clouds from above, when the springs of the depths were established,

The LORD made everything answerable to him, including the wicked at the time of trouble.

Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; he made all the weights in the bag.

It's better to meet a mother bear who has lost her cubs than a fool in his stupidity.

The ear that hears and the eye that sees the LORD surely made them both.

Gracious love and truth preserve a king; through love his throne is made secure.

Privately given gifts pacify wrath, and payments made secretly appease great anger.

By wisdom a house is built; it is made secure through understanding.

Never brag about the day to come, because you don't know what it might bring.

Though you crush a fool in a mortar and pestle as someone might crush grain, his stupidity still won't leave him.