8. A person is praised according to their prudence,and one with a warped mind is despised.
9. Better to be a nobody and yet have a servantthan pretend to be somebody and have no food.
10. The righteous care for the needs of their animals,but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.
11. Those who work their land will have abundant food,but those who chase fantasies have no sense.
12. The wicked desire the stronghold of evildoers,but the root of the righteous endures.
13. Evildoers are trapped by their sinful talk,and so the innocent escape trouble.