15. One can put on gold and abundant jewels,but wise lips are the most precious ornament.
16. Take the garment of the one who became surety for a stranger;if for foreigners, exact the pledge!
17. Bread earned by deceit is sweet,but afterward the mouth is filled with gravel.
18. Plans made with advice succeed;with wise direction wage your war.
19. A slanderer reveals secrets;so have nothing to do with a babbler!
20. Those who curse father or mother—their lamp will go out in the dead of night.
21. Possessions greedily guarded at the outsetwill not be blessed in the end.
22. Do not say, “I will repay evil!”Wait for the Lord, who will help you.
23. Varying weights are an abomination to the Lord,and false scales are not good.
24. Our steps are from the Lord;how, then, can mortals understand their way?