Proverbs 12 contrasts teachability and stubbornness, healing truth and violent deceit, diligence and slackness, ending with life on the righteous path.
Proverbs 5:1–23 Commentary: Wisdom, Covenant Fidelity, and the Way of Life
Proverbs 5 warns that seductive sweetness ends in bitterness and death, and it calls a man to guarded wisdom and joyful marital faithfulness.

