7. Respected people do not tell lies, and fools have nothing worthwhile to say.
8. Some people think a bribe works like magic; they believe it can do anything.
9. If you want people to like you, forgive them when they wrong you. Remembering wrongs can break up a friendship.
10. An intelligent person learns more from one rebuke than a fool learns from being beaten a hundred times.
11. Death will come like a cruel messenger to wicked people who are always stirring up trouble.
12. It is better to meet a mother bear robbed of her cubs than to meet some fool busy with a stupid project.
13. If you repay good with evil, you will never get evil out of your house.
14. The start of an argument is like the first break in a dam; stop it before it goes any further.
15. Condemning the innocent or letting the wicked go — both are hateful to the Lord.
16. It does a fool no good to spend money on an education, because he has no common sense.