11. Beni (my son), be chacham, and make my lev glad, that I may answer my accusers.
12. A prudent man foreseeth ra'ah, and hideth himself; but the naïve ones trudge on, and are punished.
13. Take his beged (garment) that is collateral for a zar; seize the pledge given for surety for a nokhriyah (strange woman, foreign woman, seductress).
14. He that maketh a bracha on his re'a (friend) with a kol gadol (loud voice), rising early in the boker, it shall be counted a kelalah to him.
15. A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a quarrelsome isha are alike;
16. To restrain her is like restraining the ruach (wind), and like grasping shemen in the right hand.
17. Barzel (iron) sharpeneth barzel (iron); so one ish sharpeneth another.