1. Those who fear the Lordwon’t encounter evil,but when they are testedthey will be delivered again and again.
2. Wise people won’t hate the Law,but those who are hypocrites about itare like a boat in a storm.
3. Sensible people will trust the Lord’s word;for them, the Law is as trustworthyas divine oracles.
4. Prepare your speech,and then you will be heard;draw upon your training,and give an answer.
5. The emotions of the foolishare like a wagon wheel,and their arguments are likea turning axle.
6. A friend who mocks is like a stallionthat whinnies underneathanyone who rides him.
7. Why is one day more significantthan another,when all the daylight in a yearis from the sun?
8. The Lord, in his knowledge,classified them,and he distinguished betweendifferent seasons and festivals.
9. He lifted out some daysand made them holy,and some he made regular days.
10. All people come from the ground,and Adam was created out of earth.
11. In the fullness of his knowledgethe Lord made distinctionsbetween them,and he made their ways different.
12. Some of them he blessed and lifted up,and some he made holyand brought them near to himself;some of them he cursed, brought low,and expelled them from their place.
13. Like clay in the potter’s hand,shaped according to thepotter’s pleasure,so are human beingsin the hand of the onewho made them,whom he repays accordingto his judgment.
14. Good is the opposite of evil,and life is the opposite of death;so the sinner is the oppositeof the godly.
15. Observe, then,all the works of the Most High,two by two, one opposite the other.