11Ever an evil man seeketh strives; forsooth a cruel angel shall be sent against him.
12It speedeth more to meet a female bear, when her whelps be ravished, than a fool trusting to himself in his folly.
13Evil shall not go away from the house of him, that yieldeth evils for goods.
14He that letteth out water, is the head of strives; and before that he suffereth wrong, he forsaketh doom.
15Both he that justifieth a wicked man, and he that condemneth a just or rightwise man, ever either is abominable to God.
16What profiteth it to a fool to have riches, since he may not buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh falling; and he that escheweth to learn, shall fall into evils.
17He that is a friend, loveth in all time; and a brother is proved in anguishes.