16. For all these things will be taken away from the merciful, and they shall not wallow in offenses.
17. Do not allow your mouth to become accustomed to undisciplined speech. For in this, there is the sin of words.
18. When you sit in the midst of great men, remember your father and mother.
19. Otherwise, God may forget you, when you are in their sight, and then you would be repeatedly ridiculed and would suffer disgrace, and you might wish that you had never been born, and you might curse the day of your nativity.
20. The man who is accustomed to disgraceful words will not accept instruction, all the days of his life.
21. Two kinds of persons abound in sins, and a third adds wrath and perdition.
22. A desirous soul is like a burning fire, it will not be quenched, until it devours something.
23. And a man who is wicked in the desires of his flesh will not desist until he has kindled a fire.
24. To a man of fornication, all bread is sweet; he will not tire of transgression, to the very end.
25. Every man who transgresses his own bed has contempt for his own soul. And so he says: "Who can see me?
26. Darkness surrounds me, and the walls enclose me, and no one catches sight of me. Whom should I fear? The Most High will not remember my offenses."
27. And he does not understand that God's eye sees all things. For fear within a man such as this drives away from him both the fear of God and the eyes of those men who fear God.
28. And he does not acknowledge that the eyes of the Lord are much brighter than the sun, keeping watch over all the ways of men, even to the depths of the abyss, and gazing into the hearts of men, even to the most hidden parts.
29. For all things, before they were created, were known to the Lord God. And even after their completion, he beholds all things.