4. A prudent daughter brings an inheritance to her husband. But she who causes shame will be a disgrace to him who conceived her.
5. She who is bold shames her father and her husband, and she will not be less offensive to the impious. For she will be held in dishonor by both.
6. An untimely explanation is like music in a time of mourning. But the sharp correction and doctrine of wisdom are ever timely.
7. Whoever teaches the foolish is like someone who glues together a broken pot.
8. Whoever explains a word to one who is not listening is like someone who suddenly awakens a sleeping person from a deep sleep.
9. Whoever explains wisdom to the senseless is like one speaking to a sleeping person. And at the end of the explanation, he says: "Who is this?"
10. Weep over the dead, for his light has failed. And weep over the foolish, for his understanding has failed.
11. Weep only a little over the dead, for he is at rest.
12. But the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death.