17. You have always been gracious to your people; listen to your servants as we pray. Then everyone on earth will recognize that you are the Lord, the God of the ages.
18. Any kind of food can be eaten, but some foods are better than others.
19. And just as the tongue can distinguish the flavours of different kinds of meat, so a sharp mind can detect lies.
20. A person with a warped mind causes trouble, but an experienced person knows how to pay it back.
21. A woman has to take any man as a husband, but a man must choose his wife carefully.
22. A woman's beauty makes a man happy; there is no fairer sight for the human eye to see.
23. If the woman is kind and gentle in her speech, her husband is the most fortunate of men.
24. When a man marries, he gets the finest thing he will ever have — a wife to help and encourage him.
25. If property is not fenced in, thieves will wander in and help themselves. And if a man has no wife, he is a sighing wanderer;
26. people have no more trust in a homeless person who sleeps in a different place every night than they have in a wandering thief who goes from town to town.