Proverbs 27:9-15

⁹Perfume and incense make the heart rejoice, but the sweetness of a friend comes from his sincere counsel.

¹⁰Do not forsake your friend and your friend's father, and do not go to your brother's house on the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is nearby than a brother who is far away.

¹¹Be wise, my son, and make my heart rejoice; then I will give back an answer to the one who mocks me.

¹²A prudent man sees trouble and hides himself, but the naive people go on and suffer because of it.

¹³Take a garment of one who has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an immoral woman.

¹⁴Whoever gives his neighbor a blessing with a loud voice early in the morning, that blessing will be considered to be a curse!

¹⁵A quarreling wife is like the constant dripping on a rainy day;