17. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
18. But the path of the just is as the light of the morning star, that shines more and more until the day is perfect.
19. The way of the wicked is as darkness; they do not know in what they stumble.
20. My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my words.
21. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
22. For they are life unto those that find them and medicine to all their flesh.
23. Above all else, guard thy heart; for out of it flows the issues of life.
24. Put away from thee the perversion of the mouth, and the deviation of the lips put far from thee.
25. Let thine eyes look upon that which is right, and let thine eyelids straighten thy path before thee.
26. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
27. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.