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 dayand a contentious wife are alike:
16. restraining her is like restraining the wind,or like grasping oil in his right hand.
17. Iron sharpens iron;so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
18. Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit.He who looks after his master shall be honored.
19. Like water reflects a face,so a man’s heart reflects the man.
20. Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied;and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.
21. The crucible is for silver,and the furnace for gold;but man is refined by his praise.