[1] Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. [2] Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. [3] A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both. [4] Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? [5] Better is open rebuke than hidden love. [6] Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy. [7] One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet. [8] Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home. [9] Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. [10] Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away. [11] Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me. [12] The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. [13] Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress. [14] Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing. [15] A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; [16] to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one's right hand. [17] Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. [18] Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored. [19] As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man. [20] Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man. [21] The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise. [22] Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him. [23] Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds, [24] for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations? [25] When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered, [26] the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field. [27] There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.

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