^5 (A)Open rebuke is better
Than love carefully concealed.

⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But the kisses of an enemy are ^(B)deceitful.

⁹ Ointment and perfume delight the heart,
And the sweetness of a man’s friend gives delight by ^[a]hearty counsel.

¹⁰ Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
Nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
^(A)Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

¹⁴ He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,
It will be counted a curse to him.

¹⁷ As iron sharpens iron,
So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.