Proverbs 17:16-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁶Why should fools have a price in hand
    to buy wisdom, when they have no mind to learn?
¹⁷A friend loves at all times,
    and kinsfolk are born to share adversity.
¹⁸It is senseless to give a pledge,
    to become surety for a neighbour.

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