10. Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend,and do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your disaster;a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.
11. Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad,so that I may answer anyone who taunts me.
12. A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself,but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it.
13. Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger,and when he gives surety for a stranger, hold him in pledge.
14. If someone blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning,it will be counted as a curse to him.
15. A continual dripping on a rainy dayand a contentious wife are alike.
16. Whoever hides her hides the windor grasps oil with his right hand.
17. As iron sharpens iron,so a person sharpens his friend.
18. The one who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,and whoever takes care of his master will be honored.
19. As in water the face is reflected as a face,so a person’s heart reflects the person.
20. As Death and Destruction are never satisfied,so the eyes of a person are never satisfied.
21. As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold,so a person is proved by the praise he receives.
22. If you should pound the fool in the mortaramong the grain with the pestle,his foolishness would not depart from him.