5. Sweet words will multiply a man’s friends; And a fair-speaking tongue will multiply courtesies.
6. Let those that are at peace with you be many; But your counselors one of a thousand.
7. If you would get you a friend, get him by proving, And be not in haste to trust him.
8. For there is a friend that is so for his own occasion; And he will not continue in the day of your affliction.
9. And there is a friend that turns to enmity; And he will discover strife to your reproach.
10. And there is a friend that is a companion at the table; And he will not continue in the day of your affliction.
11. And in your prosperity he will be as yourself, And will be bold over your servants: