16. Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.
17. Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted calf and hatred therewith.
18. A wrathful man stirs up strife, but he that is slow to anger appeases strife.
19. The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the righteous is made plain.
20. The wise son makes a glad father, but the foolish man despises his mother.
21. Folly is joy to him that is destitute of understanding, but the man who is intelligent walks uprightly.
22. Without counsel purposes are disappointed, but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
23. A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word spoken in due season, how good it is!