17. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it. [Prov. 17:1.]
18. A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger appeases contention.
19. The way of the sluggard is overgrown with thorns [it pricks, lacerates, and entangles him], but the way of the righteous is plain and raised like a highway.
20. A wise son makes a glad father, but a self-confident and foolish man despises his mother and puts her to shame.
21. Folly is pleasure to him who is without heart and sense, but a man of understanding walks uprightly [making straight his course]. [Eph. 5:15.]