18 A plan will be established by advice, and with guidance make war.
19 He reveals a secret, he who walks about with gossip, and do not associate with a babbler’s lips.
20 He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.
21 An inheritance acquired hastily at the beginning will not be blessed at its end.
22 Do not say “I will repay evil”; wait for Yahweh and he will deliver you.
23 An abomination of Yahweh is a stone and a weight, and scales of falsehood are not good.
24 Away from Yahweh are the steps of a strong man, and how will humankind understand his ways?