The tall grain thrives, but what do we understand of it? The meager grain thrives, but what do we understand of it?

More Babylonian Proverbs

• He has dug a well where no water is, he has raised a husk without kernel.
• Friendship in days of prosperity is servitude forever.
• Be gentle to your enemy as to an old oven.
• The life of day before yesterday has departed today.
• The life of day before yesterday has departed today.
• There is strife where servants are, slander where anointers anoint.
• When you see the gain of the fear of god, exalt god and bless the king.
• He is altogether good, but he is clothed with darkness.
• Friendship is for the day of trouble, posterity for the future.
• If the husk is not right, the kernel is not right, it will not produce seed.
• If you go and take the field of an enemy, the enemy will come and take your field.
• If I put anything down it is snatched away; if I do more than is expected, who will repay me?
• The strong live by their own wages; the weak by the wages of their children.
• The tall grain thrives, but what do we understand of it? The meager grain thrives, but what do we understand of it?
• My knees go, my feet are unwearied; but a fool has cut into my course.
• A hostile act you shall not perform, that fear of vengeance shall not consume you.
• Writing is the mother of eloquence and the father of artists.
• Upon a glad heart oil is poured out of which no one knows.
• Does a woman conceive when a virgin, or grow great without eating?
• His ass I am; I am harnessed to a mule – a wagon I draw, to seek reeds and fodder I go forth.
• An ass in another city becomes its head.
• You shall not do evil, that life eternal you may obtain.
• The gods do not deduct from marls allotted span the hours spent fishing.
• The gift of the king is the nobility of the exalted; the gift of the king is the favor of governors.
• Does a marsh receive the price of its reeds, or fields the price of their vegetation?
• If I put anything down it is snatched away; if I do more than is expected, who will repay me?
• The tall grain thrives, but what do we understand of it? The meager grain thrives, but what do we understand of it?