{9:15} A new friend is like new wine. It will grow old, and then you will enjoy drinking it.
{9:16} You should not envy the glory and wealth of a sinner. For you do not know what may be his undoing in the future.
{9:17} The injury of the unjust should not please you, knowing that, until they are in hell, the impious will not please.
{9:18} Keep yourself far from a man having the power to kill, and then you will not have the fear of death suspended over you.
{9:19} But if you do approach him, do nothing to offend, lest perhaps he may take away your life.
{9:20} Know that this is a communion with death. For you would be entering the midst of snares, and walking upon the arms of the grieving.