5. Counsel in the heart of man is like water in a deep well, but a man of understanding draws it out. [Prov. 18:4.]
6. Many a man proclaims his own loving-kindness and goodness, but a faithful man who can find?
7. The righteous man walks in his integrity; blessed (happy, fortunate, enviable) are his children after him.
8. A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows out all evil [like chaff] with his eyes.
9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? [I Kings 8:46; II Chron. 6:36; Job 9:30; 14:4; Ps. 51:5; I John 1:8.]
10. Diverse weights [one for buying and another for selling] and diverse measures–both of them are exceedingly offensive and abhorrent to the Lord. [Deut. 25:13; Mic. 6:10, 11.]
11. Even a child is known by his acts, whether [or not] what he does is pure and right.
12. The hearing ear and the seeing eye–the Lord has made both of them.
13. Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you will be satisfied with bread.
14. It is worthless, it is worthless! says the buyer; but when he goes his way, then he boasts [about his bargain].
15. There is gold, and a multitude of pearls, but the lips of knowledge are a vase of preciousness [the most precious of all]. [Job 28:12, 16-19; Prov. 3:15; 8:11.]
16. [The judge tells the creditor] Take the garment of one who is security for a stranger; and hold him in pledge when he is security for foreigners.
17. Food gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
18. Purposes and plans are established by counsel; and [only] with good advice make or carry on war.
19. He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore associate not with him who talks too freely. [Rom. 16:17, 18.]
20. Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in complete darkness.
21. An inheritance hastily gotten [by greedy, unjust means] at the beginning, in the end it will not be blessed. [Prov. 28:20; Hab. 2:6.]