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• Berakhot 10a recounts Bruriah's teaching that Psalms 104 prays not for sinners to die but for sin to cease — Proverbs 16:6 "by kindness and truth iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord evil is avoided" reframes the entire concept of Sitra Achra combat: the strategic goal is not destruction of the enemy agent but elimination of the sin-opening they exploit.
• Shabbat 104b records that God does not allow the wicked to prosper indefinitely — Proverbs 16:4 "the Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of evil" is the Talmudic theodicy that contextualizes the Sitra Achra's apparent prosperity: it is not a strategic reversal but a delayed eschatological accounting.
• Avot 3:1 ("Know from where you come, and to where you are going, and before Whom you will give account") mirrors Proverbs 16:2 "all the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirits" — the self-assessment capacity that the Sitra Achra corrupts through rationalization is restored by maintaining the Avot's three-point situational awareness.
• Makkot 10b teaches that the path a person wishes to travel, God facilitates — Proverbs 16:9 "a man's heart devises his way but the Lord directs his steps" is not fatalism but the description of divine operational co-authorship: the warrior plans (heart), God re-routes (steps), and the Sitra Achra cannot intercept communications within that collaborative channel.
• Sanhedrin 98a discusses the timing of the Messiah's arrival — Proverbs 16:12 "it is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness" is the political theology that grounds Messianic delay in moral causation: the Sitra Achra maintains its world-dominion precisely by keeping the moral condition of human kingdoms below the threshold required for the throne of righteousness to be fully established.