10 Don’t forget your friend or your father’s friend.Don’t always go to your brother for help when trouble comes.A neighbor close by is better than a brother far away.
11 Be wise, my child, and you will make me happy.Then I can respond to any insult.
12 When a wise person sees danger ahead, he avoids it.But a foolish person keeps going and gets into trouble.
13 Take the coat of someone who promises to pay what a stranger owes.Keep it until he pays the stranger’s bills.
14 Don’t greet your neighbor loudly early in the morning.He will think of it as a curse.
15 A quarreling wife is as bothersomeas a continual dripping on a rainy day.
16 Stopping her is like stopping the wind.It’s like trying to grab oil in your hand.