The thoughts of a diligent man [lead] only to abundance, but everyone who is hasty, only to want.

For I was a son to my father, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

There is he who scatters, and increases yet more, and there he is who withholds more than is proper, but only to want.

In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips [tends] only to poverty.

An evil man seeks only rebellion. Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may reveal itself.

He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, [and] he who gives to a rich man, [comes] only to want.