¹⁷ A friend loves 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 who has friends must show himself friendly,
    and there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

⁸ He who gets wisdom loves his own soul;
    he who keeps understanding will find good.

²⁸ Mercy and truth preserve the king,
    and his throne is upheld by mercy.

¹⁷ He who loves pleasure will be a poor man;
    he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

²¹ He who follows after righteousness and mercy
    finds life, righteousness, and honor.

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 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.

³ Whoever loves wisdom rejoices his father,
    but he who keeps company with harlots spends his substance.