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.