15. By long patience is a prince persuaded, and a gentle tongue breaks the bone.
16. Have you found honey? eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled with it, and vomit it.
17. Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house; lest he be weary of you, and so hate you.
18. A man that bears false witness against his neighbor is a club, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
19. Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
20. As he that takes away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon soda, so is he that sings songs to a heavy heart.
21. If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink:
22. For you shall heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward you.
23. The north wind brings forth rain: so does a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.
24. It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a whole house.
25. As cold water is to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
26. A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a muddied fountain, and a polluted spring.
27. It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search out their own glory is not glory.
28. He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.