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.