15 One can put on gold and abundant jewels,but wise lips are the most precious ornament.
16 Take the garment of the one who became surety for a stranger;if for foreigners, exact the pledge!
17 Bread earned by deceit is sweet,but afterward the mouth is filled with gravel.
18 Plans made with advice succeed;with wise direction wage your war.
19 A slanderer reveals secrets;so have nothing to do with a babbler!
20 Those who curse father or mother—their lamp will go out in the dead of night.
21 Possessions greedily guarded at the outsetwill not be blessed in the end.