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A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet.

Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.

For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.

Lambs are for thy clothing: and kids for the price of the field.

Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the necessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids.

For the sins of the land many are the princes thereof: and for the wisdom of a man, and the knowledge of those things that are said, the life of the prince shall be prolonged.

He that heapeth together riches by usury and loan, gathereth them for him that will be bountiful to the poor.

He that hath respect to a person in judgment, doth not well: such a man even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth.

A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet.

The king that judgeth the poor in truth, his throne shall be established for ever.

Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly is rather to be looked for, than his amendment.

A generation that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the poor from among men.

There is that hath appeared a fool after he was lifted up on high: for if he had understood, he would have laid his hand upon his mouth.

Open thy mouth for the dumb, and for the causes of all the children that pass.

She shall not fear for her house in the cold of snow: for all her domestics are clothed with double garments.

She hath made for herself clothing of tapestry: fine linen, and purple, is her covering.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever.

Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us.

I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.

I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine: