10. If you faint in a crisis, you are weak.
11. Rescue captives condemned to death,and spare those staggering toward their slaughter.
12. When you say, “We didn’t know this,”won’t the one who weighs hearts take note of it?Won’t the one who guards your soul know it?Won’t he pay back people for what they do?
13. Eat honey, my son, because it is good.Honey that flows from the honeycomb tastes sweet.
14. The knowledge of wisdom is like that for your soul.If you find it, then there is a future,and your hope will never be cut off.
15. You wicked one,do not lie in ambush at the home of a righteous person.Do not rob his house.
16. A righteous person may fall seven times, but he gets up again.However, in a disaster wicked people fall.
17. Do not be happy when your enemy falls,and do not feel glad when he stumbles.
18. The Lord will see it, he won’t like it,and he will turn his anger away from that person.
19. Do not get overly upset with evildoers.Do not envy wicked people,
20. because an evil person has no future,and the lamps of wicked people will be snuffed out.
21. Fear the Lord, my son.Fear the king as well.Do not associate with those who always insist upon change,
22. because disaster will come to them suddenly.Who knows what misery both may bring?