12 What the wise say brings them honour, but fools are destroyed by their own words.
13 They start out with silly talk and end up with pure madness.
14 A fool talks on and on.No one knows what is going to happen next, and no one can tell us what will happen after we die.
15 Only someone too stupid to find his way home would wear himself out with work.
16 A country is in trouble when its king is a youth and its leaders feast all night long.
17 But a country is fortunate to have a king who makes his own decisions and leaders who eat at the proper time, who control themselves and don't get drunk.
18 When someone is too lazy to repair his roof, it will leak, and the house will fall in.