18. Discipline your children while they are young enough to learn. If you don't, you are helping them to destroy themselves.
19. If someone has a hot temper, let him take the consequences. If you get him out of trouble once, you will have to do it again.
20. If you listen to advice and are willing to learn, one day you will be wise.
21. People may plan all kinds of things, but the Lord's will is going to be done.
22. It is a disgrace to be greedy; poor people are better off than liars.
23. Obey the Lord and you will live a long life, content and safe from harm.
24. Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths.
25. Arrogance should be punished, so that people who don't know any better can learn a lesson. If you are wise, you will learn when you are corrected.
26. Only a shameful, disgraceful person would ill-treat his father or turn his mother away from his home.
27. Son, when you stop learning, you will soon neglect what you already know.