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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s heart to the left. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to everyone that he is a fool. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler: |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He who quarries stones is hurt by them, and he who splits logs is endangered by them. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage to the charmer. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The words of a wise man’s mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is evil madness. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning! |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness! |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter. |
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