18 A person who lacks sense pledges; he becomes security before his neighbor.
19 He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his high thresholds seeks destruction.
20 He who is crooked of heart will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.
21 He who begets a fool, there is trouble for him; the father of a fool will not rejoice.
22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.
23 The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, in order to pervert the ways of justice.
24 He who understands sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth.