Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths are unstable but she does not know it.

Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty.

Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.