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Faithful are the wounds from a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
7
The full soul loathes a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
8
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man who wandereth from his place.
9
Ointment and perfume make the heart rejoice; so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by counsel from the heart.
10
Thine own friend and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity; for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
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My son, be wise and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
12
A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.
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Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, but take a pledge from him for a strange woman.
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He that, rising early in the morning, blesseth his friend with a loud voice: it shall be counted as a curse to him.
15
A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
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Whosoever would hide her would hide the wind, and the ointment of his right hand which betrayeth itself.