16He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
17Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.
18Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.
19Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.
20The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
21The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.