17. Anyone who loves pleasure will become poor. Anyone who loves wine and oil will never be rich.
18. Those who do what is evil pay the price for setting godly people free. Those who aren't faithful pay the price for honest people.
19. It is better to live in a desert than to live with a nagging, angry wife.
20. The best food and olive oil are stored up in the houses of wise people. But a foolish man eats up everything he has.
21. Anyone who wants to be godly and loving finds life, success and honor.
22. Those who are wise can attack a strong city. They can pull down the place of safety its people trust in.
23. Anyone who is careful about what he says keeps himself out of trouble.
24. A proud person is called a "mocker." He thinks much too highly of himself.
25. Some people will die while they are still hungry. That's because their hands refuse to work.
26. All day long they hunger for more. But godly people give without holding back.
27. God hates sacrifices that are brought by evil people. He hates it even more when they bring them for the wrong reason.
28. Witnesses who aren't honest will die. And anyone who listens to them will be destroyed forever.
29. A sinful man tries to look as if he were bold. But an honest person thinks about how he lives.