16. Whoever betrays a secret destroys confidence,and will never find a congenial friend.
17. Cherish your friend, keep faith with him;but if you betray his secrets, do not go after him;
18. For as one might kill another,you have killed your neighbor’s friendship.
19. Like a bird released from your hand,you have let your friend go and cannot recapture him.
20. Do not go after him, for he is far away,and has escaped like a gazelle from a snare.
21. For a wound can be bandaged, and an insult forgiven,but whoever betrays secrets does hopeless damage.
22. Whoever has shifty eyes plots mischiefand those who know him will keep their distance;
23. In your presence he uses honeyed talk,and admires your words,But later he changes his toneand twists the words to your ruin.
24. I have hated many things but not as much as him,and the Lord hates him as well.
25. A stone falls back on the head of the one who throws it high,and a treacherous blow causes many wounds.
26. Whoever digs a pit falls into it,and whoever lays a snare is caught in it.
27. The evil anyone does will recoil on himwithout knowing how it came upon him.