10 Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend, And do not go into your brother’s house In the day of your calamity – Better is a neighbour nearby than a brother far away.
11 My son, be wise, and gladden my heart, That I might have a word for him who reproaches me.
12 A clever man foresees calamity, hides himself; The simple shall go on, they are punished.
13 Take the garment of him who is guarantor for a stranger, And for a strange woman pledge it.
14 He who greets his friend loudly early in the morning, Shall have it reckoned to him as a curse.
15 Drops that never cease on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike;
16 Whoever represses her represses the wind, And his right hand encounters oil.