¹ Boast not yourself of tomorrow for you know not what a day may bring forward. ² Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. ³ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. ⁴ Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? ⁵ Open rebuke is better than secret love. ⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. ⁷ The full soul loathes a honeycomb but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. ⁸ As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man that wanders from his place. ⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so Does the sweetness of a man's friend by sincere counsel. ¹⁰ Your own friend, and your father's friend, abandon not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off. ¹¹ My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that rebukes me. ¹² A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. ¹³ Take his garment that is guarantee for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. ¹⁴ He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it will be counted a curse to him. ¹⁵ A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. ¹⁶ Whosoever hides her hides the wind, and the oil on his right hand, betrays his grip. ¹⁷ Iron sharpens iron so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. ¹⁸ Whoso keeps the fig tree will eat the fruit of it: so he that waits on his master will be honoured. ¹⁹ As water reflects face to face, so the heart of man reveals the man. ²⁰ Hell and destruction are never full so the eyes of man are never satisfied. ²¹ As the refining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise. ²² though you should crush a fool in a grinder among wheat with a rock, still foolishness won't depart from him. ²³ Be you diligent to know the condition of your flocks, and look well to your herds. ²⁴ For riches are not forever: and does the crown endure to every generation? ²⁵ The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. ²⁶ The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. ²⁷ And you will have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the supply for your young women.