¹ Boast not thyself of to morrow [in a day of tomorrow];
for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

² Let another man praise thee,
and not thine own mouth;
a stranger,
and not thine 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 loatheth an honeycomb;
but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

⁸ As a bird that wandereth from her nest,
so is a man that wandereth from his place.

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart:
so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

¹⁰ Thine own friend,
and thy father's friend,
forsake not;
neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy 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 reproacheth me.

¹² A prudent man foreseeth the evil,
and hideth himself;
but the simple pass on,
and are punished.

¹³ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger,
and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

¹⁴ He that blesseth 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 [shut in] day
and a contentious woman
are alike.
¹⁶ Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind,
and the ointment of his right hand,
which bewrayeth itself.

¹⁷ Iron sharpeneth iron;
so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

¹⁸ Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof:
so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

¹⁹ As in water face answereth to face,
so the heart 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 thou shouldest bray a fool
in a mortar
among wheat
with a pestle,
yet will not his foolishness depart from him [from upon him].

²³ Be thou diligent to know [knowing you shall know] the state of thy flocks,
and look well to thy herds.
²⁴ For riches are not for ever:
and doth the crown endure to every generation [generation and generation]?
²⁵ The hay appeareth,
and the tender grass sheweth itself,
and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
²⁶ The lambs are for thy clothing,
and the goats are the price of the field.
²⁷ And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food,
for the food of thy household,
and for the maintenance for thy maidens.