13. In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
14. Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
15. The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the ruin of the poor is their poverty.
16. The labor of the righteous leads to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
17. He is in the way of life that keeps instruction: but he that refuses reproof goes astray.
18. He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.