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¹ Do not boast about tomorrow,^[a]
    for you do not know what the day will bring.
² May another praise you and not your own mouth,
    a stranger and not your own lips.
³ Heavy is a stone and weighty is sand,
    but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
⁴ Cruel is wrath and overwhelming is anger,
    but who will stand before jealousy?
⁵ Better a rebuke that is open
    than a love that is hidden.
⁶ The wounds of a friend mean well,
    but the kisses of an enemy are profane.
⁷ An appetite^[b] that is sated spurns honey,
    but to an appetite^[c] that is ravenous, all bitterness is sweet.
⁸ Like a bird that strays from its nest,
    so is a man who strays from his place.
⁹ Perfume and incense will gladden a heart,
    and the pleasantness of one's friend is personal advice.^[d]
10 As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake them,
    and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity.
    Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.
¹¹ Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad,
    and I will answer him who reproaches me with a word.
¹² When the clever sees danger, he hides;
    the simple go on and suffer.
¹³ Take his garment, for he gives surety to a stranger,
    and to an adulteress^[e]—so take his pledge.
¹⁴ He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice
    early in the morning,
    a curse will be reckoned to him.
¹⁵ Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain
    and a woman^[f] of contention are alike.
¹⁶ In restraining her, he restrains wind,^[g]
    and his right hand will grasp oil^[h].
¹⁷ As iron sharpens^[i] iron,
    so one man sharpens another.^[j]
18 He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
    and he who guards his master^[k] will be honored.
¹⁹ As the waters reflect face to face,^[l]
    so the heart of a person reflects the person.
²⁰ Sheol^[m] and Abaddon^[n] will not be satisfied,
    and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied either.
²¹ A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace for the gold,
    but a man is tested by the mouth of him who praises him.
²² If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle along with^[o] the crushed grain,
    it will not drive folly from upon him.
²³ You will surely know the condition^[p] of your flock;
    your heart^[q] attends to the herds.
²⁴ For riches are not forever,
    nor a crown for generation after generation.
²⁵ When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear,
    and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered.
²⁶ Lambs will be your clothing,
    and goats the price of the field.
²⁷ And there will be enough goats' milk for your food,
    for the food of your household and the nourishment^[r] of your maidservants.