4. Riches and honour and life are the remuneration of humility and of the fear of the Lord.
5. Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he that keeps his soul shall be far from them.
6. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it.
7. The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
8. He that sows iniquity shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.
9. He that has a merciful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the destitute.
10. Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; strife and reproach shall cease.
11. He that loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
12. The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor.
13. The slothful man says, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
14. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.