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Do not fight with a wrathful man, and do not cross the wilderness with him; because blood is as nothing in his sight, and where no help is at hand, he will strike you down.
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Never dine with another man’s wife, nor revel with her at wine; lest your heart turn aside to her, and in blood you be plunged into destruction.
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From a spark of fire come many burning coals, and a sinner lies in wait to shed blood.
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An enemy will speak sweetly with his lips, but in his mind he will plan to throw you into a pit; an enemy will weep with his eyes, but if he finds an opportunity his thirst for blood will be insatiable.
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Like flourishing leaves on a spreading tree which sheds some and puts forth others, so are the generations of flesh and blood: one dies and another is born.
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What is brighter than the sun? Yet its light fails. So flesh and blood devise evil.
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The vapor and smoke of the furnace precede the fire; so insults precede bloodshed.
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The strife of the proud leads to bloodshed, and their abuse is grievous to hear.
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A hasty quarrel kindles fire, and urgent strife sheds blood.
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If you have a servant, let him be as yourself, because you have bought him with blood.
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The bread of the needy is the life of the poor; whoever deprives them of it is a man of blood.
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To take away a neighbor’s living is to murder him; to deprive an employee of his wages is to shed blood.
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Basic to all the needs of man’s life are water and fire and iron and salt and wheat flour and milk and honey, the blood of the grape, and oil and clothing.
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are death and bloodshed and strife and sword, calamities, famine and affliction and plague.
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he reached out his hand to the cup and poured a libation of the blood of the grape; he poured it out at the foot of the altar, a pleasing odor to the Most High, the King of all.
