7. The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
8. The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
9. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
10. He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
11. The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
12. Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all transgressions.
13. In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
14. Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.
15. The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
16. The labour of the righteous tendeth to life; the increase of the wicked to sin.
17. He is in the way of life that heedeth correction: but he that forsaketh reproof erreth.