16. Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak right things.
17. Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord all the day long.
18. For surely there is a latter end [a future and a reward], and your hope and expectation shall not be cut off.
19. Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way [of the Lord].
20. Do not associate with winebibbers; be not among them nor among gluttonous eaters of meat, [Isa. 5:22; Luke 21:34; Rom. 13:13; Eph. 5:18.]
21. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
22. Hearken to your father, who begot you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
23. Buy the truth and sell it not; not only that, but also get discernment and judgment, instruction and understanding.
24. The father of the [uncompromisingly] righteous (the upright, in right standing with God) shall greatly rejoice, and he who becomes the father of a wise child shall have joy in him.