13. Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
14. “It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
15. There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
16. Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
17. Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
18. Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!
19. He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
20. Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.