If only you will respond to my rebuke, then I will pour out my thoughts to you and I will make my words known to you.

When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

What the righteous desire leads only to good, but what the wicked hope for leads to wrath.

The one who tells the truth will endure forever, but the one who lies will last only for a moment.

With pride comes only contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised.

In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.

An evil person seeks only rebellion, and so a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in disclosing what is on his mind.

It is a snare for a person to rashly cry, "Holy!" and only afterward to consider what he has vowed.

The plans of the diligent lead only to plenty, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich -- both end up only in poverty.

When you find honey, eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.

so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only joking?"