"Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himsel…"

"The insight of a man certainly slows down his anger, and it is beauty on his part to pass over transgression."

"But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them."

"It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies."

"Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end."

"A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother."

"Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool."

"It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter."

"In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."

"My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he corre…"