³ Do not let gracious love and truth leave you.
    Bind them around your neck,
        write them on the tablet of your heart,

¹⁷ A gracious man benefits himself,
    but the cruel person damages himself.

²⁴ Pleasant words are honey from a honeycomb—
    sweet to the soul and healing for the body.^[a]

²⁵ Though he speaks graciously, don’t believe him,
    for there are seven detestable things in his heart.

²⁶ She speaks wisely,
    teaching with gracious love.