If thou hast opened a sad mouth, fear not, for there may be a reconciliation: except upbraiding, and reproach, and pride, and disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: for in all these cases a friend will flee away. 28Keep fidelity with a friend in his poverty, that in his prosperity also thou mayst rejoice. 29In the time of his trouble continue faithful to him, that thou mayst also be heir with him in his inheritance. 30As the vapour of a chimney, and the smoke of the fire goeth up before the fire: so also injurious words, and reproaches, and threats, before blood. 31I will not be ashamed to salute a friend, neither will I hide myself from his face: and if any evil happen to me by him, I will bear it. 32But every one that shall hear it, will beware of him. 33Who will set a guard before my mouth, and a sure seal upon my lips, that I fall not by them, and that my tongue destroy me not? 1O Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life, leave me not to their counsel: nor suffer me to fall by them. 2Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and that their sins may not appear: 3Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sins abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me? 4O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices. 5Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting. 6Take from me the greediness of the belly, and let not the lusts of the flesh take hold of me, and give me not over to a shameless and foolish mind.