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

²² ¶ Contentment is unto men to show mercy, but it is better to do it unto the poor than to the liar.

⁶ ¶ Most men will proclaim each one his own mercy, but who can find a man of truth?

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

²¹ ¶ He that follows after righteousness and mercy shall find life, righteousness, and honour.

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

¹⁰ Do not forsake thine own friend and thy father’s friend, 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.