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Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another.

These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.

That thou give not thine honour unto another, and thy years to the cruel;

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

My son, if you have become surety (guaranteed a debt or obligation) for your neighbor,
If you have given your pledge for [the debt of] a stranger or another [outside your family],

So it is with the one who sleeps with
another man’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.

He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)


There is one who pretends to be rich, yet has nothing at all;
Another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.


A man lacking common sense gives a pledge
And becomes guarantor [for the debt of another] in the presence of his neighbor.

The first to state his case seems right
until another comes and cross-examines him.

Take his garment that is become surety for another, and hold him in pledge for strangers.


Do not be among those who give pledges [involving themselves in others’ finances],
Or among those who become guarantors for others’ debts.

“They struck me, but I feel no pain!
They beat me, but I didn’t know it!
When will I wake up?
I’ll look for another drink.”


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Whoever digs a pit [for another man’s feet] will fall into it,
And he who rolls a stone [up a hill to do mischief], it will come back on him.

Take his garment that is become surety for another, and hold him in pledge for a strange woman.

One poor man oppressing another by violence, is like a continual rain that destroyeth the fruit.

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

The one who reproves another will in the end find more favor than the one who flatters with the tongue.