13. Question a friend;perhaps he didn’t do it.And if he did, question himso he doesn’t do it again.
14. Question a neighbor;perhaps she didn’t say it.And if she did say it,question her so that she doesn’t repeat it.
15. Question a friend, because it oftenturns out to be a false accusation.Don’t trust everything that is said.
16. There are those who slip,and it wasn’t intentional.Who hasn’t sinned with the tongue?
17. Question your neighborbefore issuing a threat,and give the Law of the Most Highits place.
20. Fearing the Lord is the whole of wisdom,and all wisdom involvesdoing the Law.
22. The knowledge of wickednessisn’t wisdom,and there is no prudencein the advice that sinners give.
23. There is a kind of clevernessthat is detestable,and there is a senseless personwho lacks wisdom.
24. Someone who fears Godbut who has inferior intelligenceis better than someonewho abounds in intelligencebut who violates the Law.
25. There is cleverness that is precisebut unjust,and there are people who abuse favorsin order to get a favorable decision.
26. And there are people who act wickedly, bowed down gloomily,and their insides are full of treachery.
27. They hide their faces,and they pretend they can’t hear;when you aren’t paying attention,they will outrun you.