Read the Bible

¹ Don't boast about tomorrow,
    for you don't know what the day may bring.

² Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth,
    a stranger and not your own lips.

³ Stone is heavy and sand a dead weight,
    but a fool's provocation outweighs them both.

⁴ Fury is cruel and anger overwhelming,
    but who can stand up to jealousy?
⁵ Better open rebuke
    than hidden love.

⁶ Wounds from a friend are received as well-meant,
    but an enemy's kisses are insincere.

⁷ A person who is full loathes a honeycomb;
    but to the hungry, any bitter thing is sweet.

⁸ Like a bird that strays from its nest
    is a man who strays from his home.

⁹ Perfume and incense make the heart glad,
    [also] friendship sweet with advice from the heart.

¹⁰ Don't abandon a friend
    who is also a friend of your father.

Don't enter your brother's house on the day of your calamity —
    better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

¹¹ My son, become wise, and gladden my heart,
    so that I can answer my critics.

¹² The clever see trouble coming and hide;
    the thoughtless go on and pay the penalty.

¹³ Seize his clothes because he guaranteed a stranger's loan;
    take them as security for that unknown woman.

¹⁴ Whoever greets his neighbor in a loud voice at dawn
    might just as well have cursed him.

¹⁵ A leak that keeps dripping on a rainy day
    and the nagging of a wife are the same —
¹⁶ whoever can restrain her can restrain the wind
    or keep perfume on his hand from making itself known.

¹⁷ Just as iron sharpens iron,
    a person sharpens the character of his friend.

¹⁸ Whoever tends the fig tree will eat its fruit,
    and he who is attentive to his master will be honored.

¹⁹ Just as water reflects the face,
    so one human heart reflects another.
²⁰ Sh'ol and Abaddon are never satisfied,
    and human eyes are never satisfied.

²¹ The crucible [tests] silver, and the furnace [tests] gold,
    but a person [is tested] by [his reaction to] praise.

²² You can crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle,
along with the grain being crushed;
    yet his foolishness will not leave him.

²³ Take care to know the condition of your flocks,
    and pay attention to your herds.
²⁴ For wealth doesn't last forever,
    neither does a crown through all generations.
²⁵ When the hay has been mown, and the new grass appears,
    and the mountain greens have been gathered;
²⁶ the lambs will provide your clothing,
    the goats will sell for enough to buy a field,
²⁷ and there will be enough goat's milk
    to [buy] food for you and your household
    and maintenance for your servant-girls.