10 Don’t leave your friends or your parents’ friendsand run home to your family when things get rough;Better a nearby friendthan a distant family.
11 Become wise, dear child, and make me happy;then nothing the world throws my way will upset me.
12 A prudent person sees trouble coming and ducks;a simpleton walks in blindly and is clobbered.
13 Hold tight to collateral on any loan to a stranger;be wary of accepting what a transient has pawned.
14 If you wake your friend in the early morningby shouting “Rise and shine!”It will sound to himmore like a curse than a blessing.
15-16 A nagging spouse is likethe drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet;You can’t turn it off,and you can’t get away from it.
17 You use steel to sharpen steel,and one friend sharpens another.