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the lambs will provide your clothing, the goats will sell for enough to buy a field,

and there will be enough goat's milk to [buy] food for you and your household and maintenance for your servant-girls.

He who increases his wealth by charging exorbitant interest amasses it for someone who will bestow it on the poor.

Like a roaring lion or a bear prowling for food is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

To show partiality is not good, though a person may do wrong for a crust of bread.

A person who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his own steps.

Do you see someone too anxious to speak? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

for if I have too much, I might deny you and say, "Who is Adonai ?" And if I am poor, I might steal and thus profane the name of my God.

Three things are too wonderful for me, four beyond my knowledge —

the lion, mightiest of beasts, which turns aside for none;

For as pressing milk produces butter and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing out anger produces strife.

It is not for kings, L'mu'el, not for kings to drink wine; it is not for rulers to ask, "Where can I find strong liquor?"

For they may drink, then forget what has been decreed, and pervert the justice due to the poor.

Speak up for those who can't speak for themselves, for the rights of all who need an advocate.

ל When it snows, she has no fear for her household; since all of them are doubly clothed.

For in much wisdom is much grief; the more knowledge, the more suffering.

I searched my mind for how to gratify my body with wine and, with my mind still guiding me with wisdom, how to pursue foolishness; my object was to find out what was the best thing for people to do during the short time they have under heaven to live.

I denied my eyes nothing they wanted. I withheld no pleasure from myself; for I took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward for all my work.

So I decided to look more carefully at wisdom, stupidity and foolishness; for what can the man who succeeds the king do, except what has already been done?

For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered, inasmuch as in the times to come, everything will long ago have been forgotten. The wise man, no less than the fool, must die."