At dawn the murderer gets up and goes out to kill the poor, and at night he steals.

The adulterer waits for twilight to come; he covers his face so that no one can see him.

What the wise say brings them honor, but fools are destroyed by their own words.

They start out with silly talk and end up with pure madness.

Don't criticize the king, even silently, and don't criticize the rich, even in the privacy of your bedroom. A bird might carry the message and tell them what you said.

"You can be sure that on the Judgment Day you will have to give account of every useless word you have ever spoken.

It was Enoch, the seventh direct descendant from Adam, who long ago prophesied this about them: "The Lord will come with many thousands of his holy angels

to bring judgment on all, to condemn them all for the godless deeds they have performed and for all the terrible words that godless sinners have spoken against him!"

What I am telling you in the dark you must repeat in broad daylight, and what you have heard in private you must announce from the housetops.