22. If you have opened your mouth against a friend, fear not; For there may be a reconciling; Except it be for upbraiding, and arrogance, and disclosing of a secret, and a treacherous blow: For these things every friend will flee.
23. Gain trust with your neighbor in his poverty, That in his prosperity you may have gladness: Abide stedfast to him in the time of his affliction, That you may be heir with him in his inheritance.
24. Before fire is the vapor and smoke of a furnace; So revilings before bloodshed.
25. I will not be ashamed to shelter a friend; And I will not hide myself from his face:
26. And if any evil happen to me because of him, Every one that hears it will beware of him.
27. Who shall set a watch over my mouth, And a seal of shrewdness upon my lips, That I fall not from it, and that my tongue destroy me not?