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¹ Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

² Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.

³ A stone [is] heavy, and the sand [is] heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both.⁴ Fury [is] fierce, and anger [is] overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?

⁵ Better [is] open reproof than hidden love.⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

⁷ A satiated soul treadeth down a honeycomb, And [to] a hungry soul every bitter thing [is] sweet.

⁸ As a bird wandering from her nest, So [is] a man wandering from his place.

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend -- from counsel of the soul.¹⁰ Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better [is] a near neighbour than a brother afar off.

¹¹ Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.

¹² The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.

¹³ Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

¹⁴ Whoso is saluting his friend with a loud voice, In the morning rising early, A light thing it is reckoned to him.

¹⁵ A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,¹⁶ Whoso is hiding her hath hidden the wind, And the ointment of his right hand calleth out.

¹⁷ Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

¹⁸ The keeper of a fig-tree eateth its fruit, And the preserver of his master is honoured.

¹⁹ As [in] water the face [is] to face, So the heart of man to man.

²⁰ Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied.

²¹ A refining pot [is] for silver, and a furnace for gold, And a man according to his praise.

²² If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things -- with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

²³ Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,²⁴ For riches [are] not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation.²⁵ Revealed was the hay, and seen the tender grass, And gathered the herbs of mountains.²⁶ Lambs [are] for thy clothing, And the price of the field [are] he-goats,²⁷ And a sufficiency of goats' milk [is] for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!