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²⁴Some friends play at friendship
but a true friend sticks closer than one’s nearest kin.
¹⁴Whoever blesses a neighbor with a loud voice,
rising early in the morning,
will be counted as cursing.
¹⁷Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens the wits of another.
²³Whoever rebukes a person will afterward find more favor
than one who flatters with the tongue.
⁵Whoever flatters a neighbor
is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.