1. A shem tov is rather to be desired than osher rav, and chen (grace) rather than kesef and zahav.
2. The oisher (rich man) and the rahsh (pauper) have this in common: Hashem is the Oseh (Maker) of them all.
3. A prudent man foreseeth the ra'ah, and hideth himself, but the naïve trudge on, and are punished.
4. By anavah (humility) and the Yirat Hashem are osher, and kavod, and chayyim.
5. Thorns and pachim (snares) are in the derech of the crooked; he that is shomer over his nefesh shall be far from them.
6. Train up a na'ar in the derech (road) he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
7. The oisher ruleth over the rahshim (paupers), and the loveh (borrower, debtor) is eved (slave) to the ish malveh (lender).
8. He that soweth iniquity shall reap aven (iniquity), and the shevet (rod) of his wrath shall disappear.
9. He that hath a tov ayin (generous eye) shall have a bracha; for he giveth of his lechem to the dal (poor).
10. Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall leave; indeed, strife and kalon (shame) shall cease.
11. He that loveth tahor lev (a pure heart), for the chen (grace) on his sfatayim (lips) the Melech shall be his re'a (friend).
12. The eynayim of Hashem preserve da'as, and He overthroweth the devarim of the boged (unfaithful, treacherous, traitor).
13. The atzel (sluggard, lazy one) saith, There is an ari (lion) outside; I shall be murdered in the streets.
14. The peh (mouth) of zarot (strange women) is a deep pit; he that is under the wrath of Hashem shall fall therein.
15. Folly is bound in the lev na'ar, but the shevet musar (rod of correction) shall drive it far from him.