12 The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple  have passed on, they are punished.
         
                                
                        13 Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And  for a strange woman pledge it.
         
                                
                        14 Whoso is saluting his friend with a loud voice, In the  morning rising early, A light thing it is reckoned to him.
         
                                
                        15 A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of  contentions are alike,
         
                                
                        16 Whoso is hiding her hath hidden the wind, And the ointment  of his right hand calleth out.
         
                                
                        17 Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of  his friend.
         
                                
                        18 The keeper of a fig-tree eateth its fruit, And the  preserver of his master is honoured.