4. Chemah (anger) is cruel, and fury is a torrent, but who is able to stand before kinah (jealousy, envy)?
5. Open tovah tokhakhat (good, constructive reproof) is better than secret ahavah.
6. Ne'emanim (faithful) are the wounds of an ohev (friend); but deceitful the neshikot (kisses) of an enemy.
7. The full nefesh trampleth a honeycomb, but to the hungry nefesh every mar (bitter thing) is sweet.
8. As a tzippor that wandereth from her ken (nest), so is an ish that wandereth from his makom (place, home).
9. Shemen and ketoret rejoice the lev; so doth the sweet discourse of a re'a (friend) from an atzat nefesh (a counselling of the soul).
10. Thine own re'a (friend), and the re'a avicha, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's bais in the yom of thy calamity; for better is a shakhen (neighbor) that is near than a brother far off.
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.