15. The oisher's wealth is his strong city; the destruction of the poor ones is their poverty.
16. The wage of the tzaddik leadeth to Chayyim; the wage of the rashah is for chattat [Ro 6:23].
17. He is in the orach (path) of Chayyim that is shomer over musar, but he that abandoneth tokhakhat (reproof) goes astray.
18. He that hideth sin'ah with sfatayim sheker, and he that uttereth a slander, is a kesil (fool).
19. In the multitude of devarim there wanteth not sin, but he that restraineth his sfatayim (lips) is maskil (wise).
20. The lashon of the tzaddik is as choice kesef; the lev of the resha'im is of little worth.
21. The sfatayim (lips) of the tzaddik feed rabbim (many), but fools die for lack of lev [of chochmah].
22. The Birkat Hashem, it maketh wealthy, and He addeth no sorrow with it.
23. It is as sport to a kesil to do zimmah (evil design), but an ish tevunah (man of understanding) hath chochmah.
24. What the rashah dreads, it shall come upon him, but the ta'avat tzaddikim shall be granted.
25. As the whirlwind passeth, so is the rashah no more, but the tzaddik is a yesod olam (an everlasting foundation).
26. As chometz to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the atzel (sluggard, lazy one) to them that send him.