The Jewish Wisdom Database

You shall not take vengeance!

When you make a vow to God, tarry not in its discharge!

It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and then not pay.

Vows are a fence against sin.

A vow unpaid is like thunder without rain.

Who warns us against wrong does us as much good as one that teaches us the right way.

Whoso gains wealth, but not of right, will lose it in his prime.

Diverse weights and diverse measures are an abomination to the Lord.

The wicked are like the tossing sea, for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, says God, for the wicked.

Happy the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked!

The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they know not over what they stumble.

The mouth of the wicked utters the preverse.

Profit not from the burning coals of the wicked, lest you be consumed in his fire!

Envy not a wicked man, for you know not what his end will be!

Better that I be a fool all my days than wicked even for an hour before the Lord.

A man that calls his friend wicked is as his persecutor.

A gathering of the wicked is an evil for them and an evil for the world.

Who respects the wicked is as bad as an idolater.

If the wicked do a favor, it is never complete.

Harshness to the wicked is as mercy to the good.

You shall not mistreat any widow or orphan.

Cursed be he whose wife is faithful and himself is not!

If your wife be chaste, why should you watch her? If she be not, you will watch her in vain.

Wine will renew the passion of lovers and the hatred of an enemy.

Wisdom without morals is like a ring without a gem.