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.]
22. Where there is no counsel, purposes are frustrated, but with many counselors they are accomplished.
23. A man has joy in making an apt answer, and a word spoken at the right moment–how good it is!
24. The path of the wise leads upward to life, that he may avoid [the gloom] in the depths of Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead). [Phil. 3:20; Col. 3:1, 2.]