23. The mind of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning and persuasiveness to his lips.
24. Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the mind and healing to the body.
25. There is a way that seems right to a man and appears straight before him, but at the end of it is the way of death.
26. The appetite of the laborer works for him, for [the need of] his mouth urges him on.
27. A worthless man devises and digs up mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.
28. A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. [Prov. 17:9.]
29. The exceedingly grasping, covetous, and violent man entices his neighbor, leading him in a way that is not good.
30. He who shuts his eyes to devise perverse things and who compresses his lips [as if in concealment] brings evil to pass.