10. Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend,and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is nearthan a brother who is far away.
11. Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad,that I may answer him who reproaches me.
12. The prudent sees danger and hides himself,but the simple go on and suffer for it.
13. Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger,and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.
14. Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice,rising early in the morning,will be counted as cursing.
15. A continual dripping on a rainy dayand a quarrelsome wife are alike;
16. to restrain her is to restrain the windor to grasp oil in one’s right hand.
17. Iron sharpens iron,and one man sharpens another.
18. Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,and he who guards his master will be honored.