15. A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip on a rainy day.
16. How can you keep her quiet? Have you ever tried to stop the wind or ever tried to hold a handful of oil?
17. People learn from one another, just as iron sharpens iron.
18. Take care of a fig tree and you will have figs to eat. Servants who take care of their master will be honoured.
19. It is your own face that you see reflected in the water and it is your own self that you see in your heart.
20. Human desires are like the world of the dead — there is always room for more.
21. Fire tests gold and silver; a person's reputation can also be tested.
22. Even if you beat fools until they're half dead, you still can't beat their foolishness out of them.
23. Look after your sheep and cattle as carefully as you can,
24. because wealth is not permanent. Not even nations last for ever.
25. You cut the hay and then cut the grass on the hillsides while the next crop of hay is growing.
26. You can make clothes from the wool of your sheep and buy land with the money you get from selling some of your goats.
27. The rest of the goats will provide milk for you and your family, and for your servant women as well.