[1] Boast not yourself of to morrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.
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[2] Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
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[3] A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
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[4] Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
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[5] Open rebuke is better than secret love.
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[6] Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
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[7] The full soul loathes an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
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[8] As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man that wanders from his place.
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[9] Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
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[10] Your own friend, and your father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother’s house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
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[11] My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproaches me.
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[12] A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
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[13] Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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[14] He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
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[15] A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
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[16] Whoever hides her hides the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which denudes itself.
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[17] Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
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[18] Whoever keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waits on his master shall be honored.
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[19] As in water face answers to face, so the heart of man to man.
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[20] Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
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[21] As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
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[22] Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
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[23] Be you diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.
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[24] For riches are not for ever: and does the crown endure to every generation?
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[25] The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
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[26] The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
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[27] And you shall have goats’ milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidens.
