Accept whatever is brought upon you, and in changes that humble you be patient. For gold is tested in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.
Before a man are life and death, and whichever he chooses will be given to him.
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is perverse in his ways.
But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.
Cursed are all who hate you; blessed for ever will be all who love you.
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb.
Good things and bad, life and death, poverty and wealth, come from the Lord.
He has placed before you fire and water: stretch out your hand for whichever you wish.
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
I believe; help my unbelief!
I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice, and cleaving to him...
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to want.
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool that repeats his folly.
Praise the Lord, all nations! Extol him, all peoples! For great is his steadfast love toward us; and the faithfulness of the Lord endures for ever.
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds....
The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
The wise of heart will heed commandments, but a prating fool will come to ruin.
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in his toil....
Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent.
Whoever hates reproof walks in the steps of the sinner, but he that fears the Lord will repent in his heart.
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
You cannot plumb the depths of the human heart, nor find out what a man is thinking; how do you expect to search out God, who made all these things, and find out his mind or comprehend his thought?
You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him, and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and cleave to him.