1 Boast not yourself of tomorrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.
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 mind loathes a honeycomb; but to the hungry mind 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 make the mind rejoice like the sweetness of counsel from a friend's inner being.
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.
11 My son, be wise, and make my mind glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
12 A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and are corrected.
13 Take his garment that is guarantor for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
14 He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
16 Whoever hides her hides the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which exposes itself.
17 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
18 Whoever keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit: so he who waits on his master shall be honored.
19 As in water face answers to face, so the mind of man to man.
20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
22 Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
23 Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.
24 For riches will not last through the Kingdom Age, and does the crown endure through the Age of the Age?
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 shall have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidens.