Nuggets of Wisdom

22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.

21 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but people are tested by their praise.

20 Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are human eyes.

18 The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever protects their master will be honored.

17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

15 A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm; 16 restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.

14 If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.

13 Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.