13. Better than a mighty shield and a sturdy spearit will fight for you against the enemy.
14. A good person will be surety for a neighbor,but whoever has lost a sense of shame will fail him.
15. Do not forget the kindness of your backer,for he has given his very life for you.
16. A sinner will turn the favor of a pledge into misfortune,
17. and the ungrateful will abandon his rescuer.
18. Going surety has ruined many who were prosperousand tossed them about like waves of the sea;It has exiled the prominentand sent them wandering through foreign lands.