12 Sin'ah (hatred) stirreth up medanim (dissensions), but ahavah covereth all peysha'im.
13 In the sfatayim (lips) of him that hath understanding chochmah is found, but a shevet (rod) is for the back of him that is devoid of lev [understanding].
14 Chachamim treasure up da'as (knowledge); but the peh (mouth) of the foolish is near destruction.
15 The oisher's wealth is his strong city; the destruction of the poor ones is their poverty.
16 The wage of the tzaddik leadeth to Chayyim; the wage of the rashah is for chattat [Ro 6:23].
17 He is in the orach (path) of Chayyim that is shomer over musar, but he that abandoneth tokhakhat (reproof) goes astray.
18 He that hideth sin'ah with sfatayim sheker, and he that uttereth a slander, is a kesil (fool).