He who pleads his case first [seems] just, but his neighbor comes and searches him out.

Many will entreat the favor of a generous man, and every man is a friend to him who gives gifts.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [with] words, [but] they are gone.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.

A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty, for if thou deliver [him], thou must do it yet again.

Smite a scoffer, and a simple man will learn prudence. And reprove him who has understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.

The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger sins [against] his own life.

A righteous man who walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him.

Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge for foreigners.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with him who opens wide his lips.

The way of him who is laden with guilt is exceedingly crooked, but as for a pure man, his work is right.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

He who devises to do evil, men shall call him a mischief-maker.

lest LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

He who says to a wicked man, Thou are righteous, peoples shall curse him, nations shall abhor him.

But to those who rebuke [him] shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.

Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.

As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, [is] a faithful messenger to those who send him, for he refreshes the soul of his masters.

If thine enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like to him.

See thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. It wearies him to bring it again to his mouth.

He who hates masquerades with his lips, but he lays up deceit within him.

When he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

He who digs a pit shall fall in it, and he who rolls a stone, it shall return upon him.

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.

Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge [who is surety] for a strange woman.

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be considered a curse to him.

Though thou should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.

The rich man is wise in his own conceit, but a poor man who has understanding searches him out.

A man who is laden with the blood of any person shall flee to the pit. Let no man stay him.

He who has an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not know that want shall come upon him.

Bloodthirsty men hate him who is perfect, but the upright seek his soul.

See thou a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

He who brings up his servant gently from childhood shall have him become a son at the last.

A man's pride shall bring him low, but he who is of a lowly spirit shall obtain honor.

Every word of God is tried. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

The words of king Lemuel, the oracle which his mother taught him.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.

Let him drink, and forget his need, and remember his misery no more.

She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, without him?

For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

I know that, whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. And God has done it that men should fear before him.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion. For who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be fitting is [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor in which he labors under the sun all the days of his life which God has given him, for this is his p

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God.

For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God answers [him] in the joy of his heart.

A man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Whatever has been, the name of it was given long ago, and it is know what man is. Neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense. But the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider. Yea, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

Be not hasty to go out of his presence. Persist not in an evil matter, for he does whatever pleases him.

For the king's word [has] power, and who may say to him, What are thou doing?

For to every purpose there is a time and decision, although the distress of man is great upon him.

For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?

There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither shall wickedness deliver him who is given to it.

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and prolongs his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before him.

Then I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be cheerful. For that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous man and to the wicked man, to the good man and to the clean man and to the unclean man, to him who sacrifices and to him who does not sacrifice, as is the good man,

Because to him who is joined with all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

Yea also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone [that] he is a fool.

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

A fool also multiplies words; [yet] man knows not what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

Yea, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

[I said], I will rise now, and go around the city. In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

The watchmen who go about the city found me. [I said], Did ye see him whom my soul loves?

It was but a little that I passed from them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown with which his mother has crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Where has thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? Where has thy beloved turned, that we may seek him with thee?

Woe to the wicked! [It is] ill [with him], for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

who say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it. And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!

who justify the wicked for rewards, and take away the justice of the righteous man from him!

Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings, with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who cried, and the house was filled with vapor.

And say to him, Take heed, and be quiet. Fear not, nor let thy heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

LORD of hosts, him ye shall sanctify, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

And I will wait for LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will {be a man who has trusted (LXX/NT)} in him.

Therefore LORD will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,

Yet the people have not turned to him who smote them, nor have they sought LORD of hosts.

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath. I will give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews with it? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield those who lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him who is] not wood.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and those who are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him who smote them, but shall lean upon LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

And LORD of hosts will stir up against him a scourge as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up according to the manner of Egypt.

And the Spirit of LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of LORD.

And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, {and he who arises to rule over the Gentiles (LXX/NT)}. In him shall the Gentiles {hope (LXX/NT)}, and his resting-place shall be glorious.

that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot upon my mountains. Then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder.

And Heshbon cries out, and Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. His soul trembles within him.

Let my outcasts dwell with thee. As for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it,

For thus has LORD said to me, Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

To him who was thirsty they brought water. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.