1:2 To learn wisdom and moral instruction,
and to discern wise counsel.
1:6 To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable,
the sayings of the wise and their riddles.
5:16 Should your springs be dispersed outside,
your streams of water in the wide plazas?
8:23 From eternity I was appointed,
from the beginning, from before the world existed.
8:31 rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth,
and delighting in its people.
9:11 For because of me your days will be many,
and years will be added to your life.
10:28 The hope of the righteous is joy,
but the expectation of the wicked will remain unfulfilled.
11:8 The righteous person is delivered out of trouble,
and the wicked turns up in his stead.
11:31 If the righteous are recompensed on earth,
how much more the wicked sinner!
12:7 The wicked are overthrown and perish,
but the righteous household will stand.
12:21 The righteous do not encounter any harm,
but the wicked are filled with calamity.
14:5 A truthful witness does not lie,
but a false witness breathes out lies.
21:19 It is better to live in a desert land
than with a quarrelsome and easily-provoked woman.
23:4 Do not wear yourself out to become rich;
be wise enough to restrain yourself.
23:30 Those who linger over wine,
those who go looking for mixed wine.
26:18 Like a madman who shoots
firebrands and deadly arrows,
27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.
30:28 a lizard you can catch with the hand,
but it gets into the palaces of the king.