2. In their hearts they plan to do evil. All they talk about is making trouble.
3. Good homes are built on wisdom and understanding.
4. Knowledge fills the rooms with rare and beautiful treasures.
5. Wisdom makes a man more powerful. Knowledge gives a man strength.
6. Get good advice before you start a war. To win, you must have many good advisors.
7. Fools cannot understand wisdom. They have nothing to say when people are discussing important things.
8. If you start planning ways to do wrong, people will learn that you are a troublemaker.
9. Such foolish plans are wrong, and people have no respect for someone who laughs at what is right.
10. If you are weak in times of trouble, that is real weakness.
11. If you see someone on their way to death or in danger of being killed, you must do something to save them.
12. You cannot say, “It’s none of my business.” The Lord knows everything, and he knows why you do things. He watches you, and he will pay you back for what you do.
13. My son, eat honey; it is good. Honey straight from the honeycomb is the sweetest.
14. In the same way, know that wisdom is good for you. Wisdom will give you something to hope for that will not disappoint you.
15. Don’t be like a criminal who makes plans to rob those who are good or take away their homes.
16. Good people might fall again and again, but they always get up. It is the wicked who are defeated by their troubles.
17. Don’t be happy when your enemy has troubles. Don’t be glad when they fall.
18. The Lord will see this, and he might be upset with you and decide not to punish your enemy.
19. Don’t let those who are evil upset you, and don’t be jealous of them.