There is much food in the cultivated land of the poor, but when there is no justice, it is snatched away.

Where no oxen are, the stall is clean, but much revenue comes by the strength of the ox.

In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips tends only to poverty.

And you shall have enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household, and the sustenance of your maidens.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who pursues vanities shall have poverty enough.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you have been taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

You shall eat the labor of your hands, you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may have need of nothing.

nor did we eat anyone's bread free of charge, but worked with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you,

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the Pit,

cast in your lot among us, let us all have one purse.

for their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood.

And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own souls.

Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not go in the way of evil.

Avoid it, do not pass by it; turn from it and pass on.

He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; he who does so destroys his own soul.

and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the children a young man lacking heart,

Forsake simplicity, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

A foolish woman is boisterous; she is naive, and knows nothing.

Whoever is simple, let him turn in here; and to the one lacking heart, she says to him:

He who walks with the wise will be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

And they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the house of Baal-Berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men, who went after him.

I have not sat with men of vanity, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

Those who observe empty vanities forsake their faithfulness;

For there are many insubordinate, idle talkers and seducers, especially those of the circumcision,

whose mouths must be stopped, who overturn whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.