For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words.

When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing to support him.

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a wall.

Through indolence the rafters sag, and through slackness the house leaks.

in the day that the watchmen of the house tremble, and mighty men stoop, the grinding ones stand idle because they are few, and those who look through windows grow dim;