Study Desk

Knowing these teachings will mean true life and good health for you.

You will lose your self-respect and end up in debt to some cruel person for the rest of your life.

Strangers will get your money and everything else you have worked for.

Save yourself for your wife and don't have sex with other women.

and you are now in the power of someone else. Here is what you should do: Go and beg for permission to call off the agreement.

A woman who sells her love can be bought for as little as the price of a meal. But making love to another man's wife will cost you everything.

We don't put up with thieves, not even with one who steals for something to eat.

"I had to offer a sacrifice, and there is enough meat left over for a feast.

So I came looking for you, and here you are!

I was there when he set boundaries for the sea to make it obey him, and when he laid foundations to support the earth.

Good sense is good for you, but if you brag, you hurt yourself.

If you obey the Lord, you will be happy, but there is no future for the wicked.

It's a dangerous thing to guarantee payment for someone's debts. Don't do it!

Charge too much for grain, and you will be cursed; sell it at a fair price, and you will be praised.

Try hard to do right, and you will win friends; go looking for trouble, and you will find it.

A helpful wife is a jewel for her husband, but a shameless wife will make his bones rot.

We are rewarded or punished for what we say and do.

You will be well rewarded for saying something kind, but all some people think about is how to be cruel and mean.

Keep what you know to yourself, and you will be safe; talk too much, and you are done for.

Whoever delivers your message can make things better or worse for you.