²⁶ The righteous is a guide to his neighbors,
    but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

²⁰ He who walks with wise men will be wise,
    but a companion of fools will be destroyed.

⁷ Go from the presence of a foolish man,
    when you do not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

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

²⁴ A man who has friends must show himself friendly,
    and there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

¹⁶ Have you found honey? Eat only as much as is sufficient for you,
    lest you be filled with it and vomit it.
¹⁷ Withdraw your foot from your neighbor’s house,
    lest he be weary of you and so hate you.

⁸ As a bird that wanders from her nest,
    so is a man who wanders from his place.

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

¹⁰ Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
    nor go into your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
    for better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far off.

²⁴ Whoever is partner with a thief hates his own soul;
    he hears the oath but tells nothing.