Read the Bible

¹ Do not boast about tomorrow,
    for you do not know what a day may bring.
² Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—
    a stranger, and not your own lips.
³ A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty,
    but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
⁴ Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming,
    but who is able to stand before jealousy?
⁵ Better is open rebuke
    than hidden love.
⁶ Well meant are the wounds a friend inflicts,
    but profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
⁷ The sated appetite spurns honey,
    but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet.
⁸ Like a bird that strays from its nest
    is one who strays from home.
⁹ Perfume and incense make the heart glad,
    but the soul is torn by trouble.^[a]
10 Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent;
    do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is nearby
    than kindred who are far away.
¹¹ Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad,
    so that I may answer whoever reproaches me.
¹² The clever see danger and hide;
    but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
¹³ Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger;
    seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.^[b]
14 Whoever blesses a neighbor with a loud voice,
    rising early in the morning,
    will be counted as cursing.
¹⁵ A continual dripping on a rainy day
    and a contentious wife are alike;
¹⁶ to restrain her is to restrain the wind
    or to grasp oil in the right hand.^[c]
17 Iron sharpens iron,
    and one person sharpens the wits^[d] of another.
¹⁸ Anyone who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
    and anyone who takes care of a master will be honored.
¹⁹ Just as water reflects the face,
    so one human heart reflects another.
²⁰ Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,
    and human eyes are never satisfied.
²¹ The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold,
    so a person is tested^[e] by being praised.
²² Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle
    along with crushed grain,
    but the folly will not be driven out.

²³ Know well the condition of your flocks,
    and give attention to your herds;
²⁴ for riches do not last forever,
    nor a crown for all generations.
²⁵ When the grass is gone, and new growth appears,
    and the herbage of the mountains is gathered,
²⁶ the lambs will provide your clothing,
    and the goats the price of a field;
²⁷ there will be enough goats' milk for your food,
    for the food of your household
    and nourishment for your servant-girls.