7The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
8The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
9He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
10He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
11The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
12Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all transgressions.
13In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.
15The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
16The labour of the righteous tendeth to life; the increase of the wicked to sin.
17He is in the way of life that heedeth correction: but he that forsaketh reproof erreth.
18He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; and he that uttereth a slander is a fool.