1. Have you sinned, my child? Don't do it again, and pray for forgiveness for what you have already done.
2. Avoid sin as if it were a snake. If you get too near, it will sink its teeth into your soul like a lion, and destroy you.
3. Every lawless act leaves an incurable wound, like one left by a double-edged sword.
4. If a person is insolent and arrogant, he may lose everything he has.
5. When poor people pray, God hears them and quickly answers their prayers.
6. If you refuse to accept correction, you are committing a sin; and if you fear the Lord, you will make a sincere change in your ways.
7. Someone may be famous as a good speaker, but when he is wrong, a sensible person will detect it.
8. Someone who borrows money to build a house is just collecting stones for his own tomb.
9. A group of people who have no respect for the Law is like a pile of kindling; they will meet a fiery end.
10. The road that sinners walk is smooth and paved, but it leads to the world of the dead.
11. Whoever wants to keep the Law must learn what the Law means. If you fear the Lord in every sense of the term, you will have wisdom.
12. You have to be intelligent to learn anything; but there is such a thing as just pretending to be intelligent, which only makes people bitter.
13. A wise person's knowledge is like a river that never runs dry, like an ever-flowing stream of good advice.