10. Don’t desert your friend or a friend of your family;don’t go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes.Better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
11. Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad,so I can answer those who insult me.
12. Prudent people see evil and hide;the simpleminded go right to it and get punished.
13. Take the garment of the person who secures a loan for a stranger;take his pledge for a foreigner.
14. Greeting a neighbor with a loud voice early in the morningwill be viewed as a curse.
15. The constant dripping on a rainy dayand a contentious woman are alike;
16. anyone who can control hercan control the windor pick up oil in his hand.
17. As iron sharpens iron,so friends sharpen each other’s faces.