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¹ Do not boast in the day of tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

² Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; let it be a stranger, and not your own lips.

³ A stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool's anger is heavier than both.⁴ Fury is fierce, and anger overflows, but who can stand before jealousy?

⁵ Better is revealed reproof than secret love.⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a lover, and plentiful are the kisses of one hating.

⁷ One who is full tramples a honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

⁸ A man wandering from his place is like a bird that wanders from the nest.

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, and one's friend is sweet from the counsel of the soul.¹⁰ Do not forsake your friend, nor your father's friend, and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity, for a near neighbor is better than a brother far away.

¹¹ My son, become wise and give joy to my heart, so that I may return a word to him that taunts me.

¹² A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself; the simple go on and are punished.

¹³ Take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge who is surety for a strange woman.

¹⁴ He who rises early in the morning and blesses his friend with a loud voice, it is counted as cursing to him.

¹⁵ Drops that never cease on a rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike;¹⁶ he who hides her hides the wind, and the ointment of his right hand cries out.

¹⁷ Iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens his friend's face.

¹⁸ The keeper of the fig tree eats its fruit, so he keeping his master is honored.

¹⁹ As face reflects face in the water, so the heart of man reflects a man.

²⁰ Sheol and destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

²¹ The refining pot tries silver, and the furnace tries gold, but a man is tried by the mouth of his praise.

²² If you pound a fool in the mortar with a pestle amidst grain, his foolishness will not turn away from him.

²³ Know well the face of your flock; set your heart on your herds,²⁴ for wealth is not forever, nor the crown from generation to generation.²⁵ When the grass is revealed, and the new grass is seen, and the mountain plants are taken up,²⁶ the lambs will be for your clothing, and the he goats the price for a field,²⁷ and there will be goat's milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the life of your maidens.