6. For by wise counsel you can wage your war, and in an abundance of counselors there is victory and safety.
7. Wisdom is too high for a fool; he opens not his mouth in the gate [where the city's rulers sit in judgment].
8. He who plans to do evil will be called a mischief-maker.
9. The plans of the foolish and the thought of foolishness are sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to men.
10. If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
11. Deliver those who are drawn away to death, and those who totter to the slaughter, hold them back [from their doom].
12. If you [profess ignorance and] say, Behold, we did not know this, does not He Who weighs and ponders the heart perceive and consider it? And He Who guards your life, does not He know it? And shall not He render to [you and] every man according to his works?