4. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
5. A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
6. A scoffer seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understands.
7. Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive not in him the lips of knowledge.
8. The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
9. Fools make a mockery of sin: but among the righteous there is favor.
10. The heart knows its own bitterness; and a stranger does not share its joy.
11. The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tent of the upright shall flourish.
12. There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
13. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is grief.
14. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from above himself.
15. The simple believes every word: but the prudent man looks well where he is going.
16. A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.
17. He that is quickly angry deals foolishly: and a man of wicked intentions is hated.
18. The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.