20. Be friends with those who are wise, and you will become wise. Choose fools to be your friends, and you will have trouble.
21. Trouble chases sinners wherever they go, but good things happen to good people.
22. It is good to have something to pass down to your grandchildren. But wealth hidden away by sinners will be given to those who live right.
23. The poor might have good land that produces plenty of food, but bad decisions can take it away.
24. If you don’t correct your children, you don’t love them. If you love them, you will be quick to discipline them.
25. Good people will have plenty to eat, but the wicked will go hungry.