The Koine Bible

A lazy person is compared with a stone covered with filth, and everyone will hiss at his disgrace

A lazy man is compared to a dung-heap; everyone who takes him up will shake off the hand.

A father’s shame is a daughter born uneducated, and she becomes a lowering of esteem.

A prudent daughter will inherit her husband, and she who brings shame is for the grief of the one who bore her.

A bold woman shames father and husband, and by both she will be dishonored.

Music in mourning is untimely; but stripes and discipline are at every time of wisdom

He who teaches a fool is like one joining broken potsherd to potsherd, waking one who sleeps from deep sleep.

The one telling a story to one nodding off is like the one telling to a fool, and at the end he will say, What is it?

Mourn over a dead man, for light has failed; and over a fool, mourn, for understanding has failed. Mourn more sweetly over a dead man, because he has rested; but the life of a fool is worse than death.

For a dead man, mourning is seven days, but for a fool and an ungodly man, all the days of his life are mourning.

With a foolish man do not multiply speech, and toward an unintelligent man do not go; guard yourself from him, lest you have trouble and you should not be defiled in his collision. Turn away from him, and you will find rest, and you should not be wearied in his folly.

What will be heavier than lead, and what is his name, except fool?

Sand and salt and a lump of iron are easier to bear than an unintelligent person

A wooden bandage bound into a building will not be loosed in a shaking; so a heart established upon a thought of counsel in time will not be cowardly.

A heart established on a thoughtful understanding is like a plaster decoration on a polished wall.

As stakes set on a height facing the wind will by no means endure, so a cowardly heart upon a foolish thought facing every fear will by no means endure.

He who pricks the eye will bring tears down, and he who pricks the heart reveals feeling.

Casting a stone upon birds frightens them away, and the one reproaching a friend will dissolve friendship.

If you draw a sword against a friend, do not despair, for there is a return.

If you open your mouth against a friend, do not be cautious, for there is reconciliation; only of insult and pride and disclosure of a secret and a deceitful blow—in these things every friend will avoid.

Acquire fidelity in poverty with your neighbor, so that in his good things you may be filled together; in time of affliction remain with him, so that in his inheritance you may inherit together.

Before fire is the vapor of the furnace, and smoke; so before bloods are revilings

I will not be ashamed to shelter a friend, and from his face I will by no means hide myself.

and if evils should happen to me because of him, everyone who hears will keep himself from him

Who will give a guard upon my mouth and a cunning seal upon my lips, so that I may not fall by it and my tongue destroy me?