14. Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.
15. The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
16. The labour of the righteous tendeth to life; the increase of the wicked to sin.
17. He is in the way of life that heedeth correction: but he that forsaketh reproof erreth.
18. He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; and he that uttereth a slander is a fool.
19. In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression: but he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.
20. The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.