¹⁷ A friend loveth at all times,
    and a brother is born for adversity.

¹⁹ A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city:
    and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

²⁴ A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly:
    and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

⁸ He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul:
    he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

²⁸ Mercy and truth preserve the king:
    and his throne is upholden by mercy.

¹⁷ He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man:
    he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

²¹ He that followeth after righteousness and mercy
    findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

⁵ Open rebuke is better than secret love.

⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart:
so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

¹⁰ Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not;
neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity:
for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

³ Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father:
but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.