¹Better a dry morsel with quietness in it than a house full of feasting with strife.

²A servant who acts wisely will rule over a son who brings shame, and among the brothers he will divide the inheritance.

³A crucible is for silver and a furnace for gold, but Yahweh is the one who tests hearts.

⁴An evil-doer pays attention to a lip of wickedness; a liar gives ear to a tongue of destruction.

⁵One who mocks the poor reproaches his maker; one joyful at disaster will not go unpunished.

⁶The crown of the old is children's children, and the splendor of children is their fathers.

⁷A lip of superiority is not fitting for a fool; how much less a lip of falsehood for a noble.

⁸A bribe is a stone of favor in the eyes of its owner; wherever he turns, he acts wisely.

⁹One who covers a transgression seeks love, but one who repeats a word separates an intimate friend.

¹⁰A rebuke goes down into one who understands more than a hundred blows into a fool.

¹¹Only rebellion seeks evil, and a cruel messenger will be sent against it.

¹²Let a bear robbed of her young meet a man, but not a fool in his foolishness.

¹³One who returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.

¹⁴The beginning of conflict is one who lets out waters; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.

¹⁵One who justifies the wicked and one who condemns the righteous as guilty, both of them also are an abomination to Yahweh.

¹⁶Why is this a price in the hand of a fool to acquire wisdom, when there is no heart?

¹⁷At all times a friend loves, and a brother is born for distress.

¹⁸A person lacking heart strikes a palm, pledging a pledge before his neighbor.

¹⁹One who loves transgression loves fighting; one who makes his door high seeks a crash.

²⁰One twisted of heart does not find good, and one who is turned around in his tongue falls into evil.

²¹One who begets a fool has grief for himself, and the father of a senseless one will not rejoice.

²²A joyful heart does good as healing, but a stricken breath dries up the bones.

²³A wicked one takes a bribe from the bosom to bend the paths of justice.

²⁴Wisdom lies before the face of one who understands, but the eyes of a fool are at the end of the land.

²⁵A foolish son is vexation to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

²⁶Also, to fine the righteous is not good, nor to strike the noble for uprightness.

²⁷One who restrains his words knows knowledge, and a man of understanding is rare of breath.

²⁸Even a fool who keeps silent is reckoned wise, one who shuts his lips, discerning.