1Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
2Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
3A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
4Wrath is cruel and anger is outraging, but who is able to stand before envy?
5Open rebuke is better than secret love.
6Faithful are the wounds from a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
7The full soul loathes a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
8As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man who wandereth from his place.
9Ointment and perfume make the heart rejoice; so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by counsel from the heart.
10Thine own friend and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity; for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
11My son, be wise and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
12A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.
13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, but take a pledge from him for a strange woman.
14He that, rising early in the morning, blesseth his friend with a loud voice: it shall be counted as a curse to him.
15A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
16Whosoever would hide her would hide the wind, and the ointment of his right hand which betrayeth itself.
17Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
18Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof; so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored.
19As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
20Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21As the refining pot for silver and the furnace for gold, so is a man tried by praise.
22Though thou shouldest grind a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
23Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds,
24for riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure to every generation?
25The hay appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered;
26the lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats pay the price of the field;
27and thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food for thy household, and for the maintenance of thy maidens.