16. Have you found [pleasure sweet like] honey? Eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest, being filled with it, you vomit it.
17. Let your foot seldom be in your neighbor's house, lest he become tired of you and hate you.
18. A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a heavy sledgehammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.
19. Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint.
20. He who sings songs to a heavy heart is like him who lays off a garment in cold weather and like vinegar upon soda. [Dan. 6:18; Rom. 12:15.]
21. If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; [Matt. 5:44; Rom. 12:20.]
22. For in doing so, you will heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord will reward you.
23. The north wind brings forth rain; so does a backbiting tongue bring forth an angry countenance.
24. It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a disagreeing, quarrelsome, and scolding woman. [Prov. 21:9.]
25. Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far [home] country.
26. Like a muddied fountain and a polluted spring is a righteous man who yields, falls down, and compromises his integrity before the wicked.
27. It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to seek glory, their own glory, causes suffering and is not glory.
28. He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls. [Prov. 16:32.]