10. Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend, And do not go into your brother’s house In the day of your calamity – Better is a neighbour nearby than a brother far away.
11. My son, be wise, and gladden my heart, That I might have a word for him who reproaches me.
12. A clever man foresees calamity, hides himself; The simple shall go on, they are punished.
13. Take the garment of him who is guarantor for a stranger, And for a strange woman pledge it.
14. He who greets his friend loudly early in the morning, Shall have it reckoned to him as a curse.
15. Drops that never cease on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike;
16. Whoever represses her represses the wind, And his right hand encounters oil.
17. Iron is sharpened by iron, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.
18. He who tends the fig tree eats its fruit; And he who guards his master is esteemed.
19. As in water face reflects face, So a man’s heart reflects a man.
20. The grave and destruction are not satisfied; So the eyes of man are not satisfied.
21. A refining pot is for silver and a furnace for gold, So a man is tried by his praise.
22. Even if you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle Along with crushed grain, His folly shall not leave him.