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.
19. The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
20. The poor is hated even of his own neighbor: but the rich has many friends.
21. He that despises his neighbor sins: but he that has mercy on the poor, happy is he.
22. Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
23. In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.