Prov 17:19 He who loves strife {and} is quarrelsome loves transgression {and} involves himself in guilt; he who raises high his gateway {and} is boastful {and} arrogant invites destruction.
Prov 17:20 He who has a wayward {and} crooked mind finds no good, and he who has a willful {and} contrary tongue will fall into calamity.
Prov 17:21 He who becomes the parent of a [self-confident] fool does it to his sorrow, and the father of [an empty-headed] fool has no joy [in him].
Prov 17:22 A happy heart is good medicine {and} a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Prov 17:23 A wicked man receives a bribe out of the bosom (pocket) to pervert the ways of justice.
Prov 17:24 A man of understanding sets skillful {and} godly Wisdom before his face, but the eyes of a [self-confident] fool are on the ends of the earth.
Prov 17:25 A self-confident {and} foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
Prov 17:26 Also, to punish {or} fine the righteous is not good, nor to smite the noble for their uprightness.
Prov 17:27 He who has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding has a cool spirit.

When you take your time reading Proverbs, different  people pop up in your mind when you read each one. Don't worry, it happens to everyone because everyone knows someone who has "been" the way of the fool, or the way of those who lack knowledge and understanding of the ways of God. We are living in a self-centered disposable world where respect, discipline, and honor are far from the "knowledge" of the past two generations. Last night my mother called me. She is 87, has artificial knees and is ill. She had tripped on the recently done landscaping of her sidewalk, and had fallen onto the grass not too far from the road. People drove by, and her neighbors got in their vehicle and waved at her laying there. She tried to get someone to stop and help her but no one would. She had called me to say she had gotten one of those first alert things we see advertised. We have right now growing up in our society a generation of those who would walk past someone laying helplessly on the ground, as much as someone struggling with heavy bags of groceries. A self confident fool who has a wayward crooked mind, "finds no good." So everyone around him including his family, would be affected by his choices and attitudes. Because wickedness is increasing, we have to become stronger in our spirits in the ways of God and in His word, to be a man of understanding in God's eyes, this world's ways and people will shun and reject you because you represent an obedience that shows and stands out for righteousness and does not hesitate to stop and help someone along the way. The more words that come from a self-confident fool, the more silent the wise become to them. God revealed HIS WAYS to Moses, and the things HE did, (his acts) HE revealed to the people who left Egypt. The ways of a fool find destruction because they are looking for it, but a man of understanding has peace. Sad thing? It is our choice.