2. Proud and boastful people will be shamed, but wisdom stays with those who are modest and humble.
3. Good people are guided by their honesty, but crooks who lie and cheat will ruin themselves.
4. Money is worthless when you face God’s punishment, but living right will save you from death.
5. Doing right makes life better for those who are good, but the wicked are destroyed by their own wicked ways.
6. Doing right sets honest people free, but people who can’t be trusted are trapped by their greed.
7. When the wicked die, all their hopes are lost; everything they thought they could do comes to nothing.
8. Good people escape from trouble, but the wicked come along and are trapped by it.