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.