11. A fountain of life is a mouth of righteousness, and a mouth of wickedness conceals violence.
12. Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers over all offenses.
13. On the lips of one who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of one who lacks sense.
14. Those who are wise lay up knowledge, but to the mouth of the fool, ruin draws near.
15. The wealth of the rich is the city of his strength; the ruin of the poor is their poverty.
16. The wage of the righteous leads to life; the gain of the wicked to sin.
17. On the path to life is he who guards instruction, but he who rejects rebuke goes astray.
18. He who conceals hatred has lips of deceit, and he who utters slander—he is a fool.