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When you find honey, eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.

Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.

Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

Silver is tried in the mould, and gold in the furnace, and so is a man, when he is openly praised to his face.


When the grass is gone, the new growth is seen,
And herbs of the mountain are gathered in,


When a land does wrong, it has many princes,
But when the ruler is a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability endures.

When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

When a wise man has a dispute with a fool, the fool either rages or laughs without relief.

When a ruler giveth heed to the word of falsehood, all his attendants, become lawless.

When a king judgeth faithfully the poor, his throne, to futurity, shall be established.

When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

Who hath ascended the heavens and then descended? Who hath gathered the wind into his two hands? Who hath wrapped up the waters in a mantle? Who hath set up all the ends of the earth? What is his name and what the name of his son, when thou knowest?

Such is the way also of a wife that breaketh wedlock, which wipeth her mouth like as when she hath eaten, and sayeth, "As for me, I have done no harm."

There [are] three [things] that are magnificent of stride, and four that are magnificent [when] moving:


The strutting rooster, the male goat also,
And the king when his army is with him.

She hath perceived when her merchandise is good, Her lamp is not extinguished in the night.