We shall find all precious wealth, we shall fill our houses [with] booty,

and your barns shall be full of plenty, and your vats shall burst [with] new wine.

But the path of the righteous ones [is] like the light of dawn, leading and shining until the day {is full}.

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

[People] do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry.

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."

He goes after her suddenly; like an ox to the slaughter he goes, and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,

[in order] to endow those who love me [with] wealth, and I will fill their treasuries.

A heart of wisdom will heed commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Those who are wise lay up knowledge, but [to] the mouth of the fool, ruin draws near.

He who conceals hatred [has] lips of deceit, and he who utters slander--he is a fool.

[It is] like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding.

The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness.

Where there is no guidance, a nation shall fall, but [there is] safety in an abundance of counsel.

He who trusts in his wealth [is] he who will fall, but like a green leaf the righteous will flourish.

He who brings trouble [to] his household, he will inherit wind, and a fool will serve the wise of heart.

The way of a fool is upright in his [own] eyes, but he who listens to advice [is] wise.

As for a fool, {on that very day} he makes his anger known, but he who ignores an insult [is] prudent.

A clever person conceals knowledge, but the heart of a fool announces folly.

Anyone who is clever will act with intelligence, but the fool will display folly.

A messenger of wickedness will fall into trouble, but an envoy of the faithful [brings] healing.

In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride, but the lips of the wise preserve them.

The wise is cautious and turns from evil, but the fool throws off restraint and is confident.

A fool will despise the instruction of his father, but he who guards reproof is prudent.

Before destruction [comes] pride, and before a fall, a haughty spirit.

{Fine speech} [is] not becoming a fool, {still less} [is] {false speech} for a ruler.

A rebuke strikes him who understands deeper than one hundred blows to a fool.

[May] a man meet a she-bear robbed of offspring and not a fool in his folly.

Why [is] this? A price in the hand of a fool, [in order] to buy wisdom where there is no {sense}.

He who is crooked of heart will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.

He who begets a fool, [there is] trouble for him; the father of a fool will not rejoice.

He who understands sets [his] face [toward] wisdom, but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth.

A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Even a fool who keeps silent {shall be considered wise}; he who closes his lips [is] intelligent.

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

The lips of a fool will bring strife, and his mouth calls out for a flogging.

The mouth of a fool [is] ruin to him, and his lips [are] a snare to his soul.

Better a poor person walking in integrity than one who is perverse {in his speech} and is a fool.

For a fool living in luxury is not fitting, [any] more [than it is] for a slave to rule over princes.

[It is] honorable for the man to refrain from strife, but every fool will be quick to quarrel.

He who walks in his integrity [is] righteous; happy are his children who follow him.

He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his anger will fail.

A deep pit is the mouth of an {adulteress}, [he with whom] Yahweh is angry will fall there.

In the ears of a fool do not speak, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

For seven [times] the righteous will fall, but he will rise, but the wicked will be overthrown by calamity.

[If] you find honey, eat what is sufficient for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it out.

Like snow in the summer and like rain at the harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

Do not answer a fool according to his folly lest you become like him--even you.

Answer a fool according to his folly, or else he will be wise in his own eyes.

[Like] cutting off feet [or] drinking violence, so [is] he who sends messages in the hand of a fool.

Like binding a stone in a sling, so [is] giving honor to a fool.

[Like] an archer who wounds everyone, so [is] he who hires a fool or he who hires passersby.

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

[Do] you see a man wise in his own eyes? [There is more] hope for a fool than for him.

He who digs a pit, in it he will fall, and he who rolls a stone, on him it will come back.

Heavy [is] a stone and weighty [is] sand, but [the] provocation of a fool [is] heavier than both of them.

If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle {along with} the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him.

The wicked flee, but no one pursues, but the righteous is bold like a lion.

He who misleads the upright onto the way of evil, into his pits he will fall. But as for the blameless, they will inherit good.

Happy is the person who fears continuously, but he who is stubborn of heart, will fall into calamity.

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

He who walks in integrity will be safe, but he who takes crooked paths will fall in one.

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be saved.

A fool gives all his breath, but [the] wise holds back in quiet.

You see a man who is hasty in his words: [there is more] hope for a fool than him.

The eye [that] mocks a father and scorns the obedience of a mother-- the ravens of the valley will peck it out, and the offspring of vultures will eat it.

under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied [with] food;