1. Because of need, many have sinned. And whoever seeks to be enriched, averts his eye.
2. Like a post fixed in the middle of adjoining stones, so also will sin become wedged between selling and buying.
3. Sin will be crushed with the one who sins.
4. If you do not hold yourself steadfastly to the fear of the Lord, your house will be quickly overthrown.
5. Just as the dust remains when one shakes a sieve, so will the doubt of a man remain in his thoughts.
6. The furnace tests the potter's vessels, and the trial of the tribulation tests just men.
7. As the pruning of a tree reveals its fruit, so does a word reveal the thoughts in the heart of a man.
8. You should not praise a man before he speaks; for such is the testing of men.
9. If you pursue justice, you will obtain it. And you will be clothed with justice, as with a long robe of honor. And you will live with justice. And justice will protect you continually. And on the day of reckoning, you will find a strong foundation.
10. Birds flock to their own kind. And truth will return to those who practice it.
11. The lion lies in wait for its prey continually. So also do sins lie in wait for those who work iniquity.
12. A holy man persists in wisdom like the sun. But a senseless man changes like the moon.
13. In the midst of the senseless, retain a word for the proper time. But be continually in the midst those who are thoughtful.
14. The discussions of sinners are hateful, and their laughter is a delight in sin.
15. The speech that swears many oaths will cause the hair of the head to stand upright; and its irreverence will cause the ears to be blocked.