9 Ointments and perfume encourage the heart; in a similar way, a friend's advice is sweet to the soul.
10 Never abandon your friend nor your father's friend, and don't go to your brother's house in times of trouble. A neighbor who is near is better than a brother who lives far away.
12 Those who are prudent see danger and take refuge, but the naive continue on and suffer the consequences.
13 Take the coat of anyone who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he cosigns for an immoral woman.
16 Trying to keep her in check is like stopping a wind storm or grabbing oil with your right hand.
18 Whoever nurtures the fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever obeys his master will be honored.
22 Though you crush a fool in a mortar and pestle as someone might crush grain, his stupidity still won't leave him.
24 because riches don't endure forever, and crowns don't last from one generation to the next.