Thus are the ways of all who are greedy [for] gain-- it will take the life of its possessors.

She is a tree of life for those who seize her; those who take hold of her are considered happy.

Listen, my child, take my sayings, and [the] years of your life shall be great.

Her feet go down [to] death; her steps take hold [of] Sheol.

lest strangers take [their] fill of your strength, and your labors [go] to the house of a foreigner,

She took hold of him and kissed him. Her face was impudent, and she said to him,

Come, let us take [our] fill of love making, until the morning let us delight in love.

The bag of money he took in his hand, for [on] the day of the full moon he will come home."

Take my teaching and not silver; may you choose knowledge rather than choice gold.

Give to a wise one and he will become more wise; {teach} a righteous one and he will increase learning.

Only by insolence is strife set up, and wisdom [is] with those who take advice.

A fool will not take pleasure in understanding, but in expressing his heart.

Take his garment, for he has given security [to] a stranger, and on behalf of a foreigner--take it as pledge.

If there is nothing for you to pay, why will he take your bed from under you?

Then I myself saw and my heart considered; I looked, and I took hold of instruction:

Like a dog returning to his vomit [is] a fool reverting to his folly.

Grabbing onto the ears of a dog passing by [is] one who meddles in a quarrel [that is] not his own.

Take his garment, for he gives surety [to] a stranger, and to {an adulteress}--[so] take his pledge.

A person who is burdened with [the] blood of {another}, until death he will flee; do not take hold of him.