6. Children’s children are a crown to the aged,and parents are the pride of their children.
7. Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool –how much worse lying lips to a ruler!
8. A bribe is seen as a charm by the one who gives it;they think success will come at every turn.
9. Whoever would foster love covers over an offence,but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
10. A rebuke impresses a discerning personmore than a hundred lashes a fool.
11. Evildoers foster rebellion against God;the messenger of death will be sent against them.
12. Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubsthan a fool bent on folly.