9. Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
10. Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.
11. Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.
12. A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
13. Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!
14. He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.
15. A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
16. restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.