9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
10 Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
12 A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
13 Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it as a pledge of him for an immoral woman.
14 He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
18 Whosoever keeps the fig tree shall eat its fruit: so he that waits on his master shall be honored.
21 As the refining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man judged by his praise.
22 Though you should crush a fool in a mortar among grain with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
25 The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.