Babylonian

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