10. It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury— how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
11. A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.
12. A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
13. A foolish child is a father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof.
14. Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
15. Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.
16. Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life, but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.
17. Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done.