1 Do not brag about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day will bring.
2 Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips.
3 Stone is heavy and sand is a burden, but a fool's vexation weighs more than both.
4 Fury is cruel and anger overwhelming, but who can stand up to jealousy?
5 Better is an open reprimand than hidden love.
6 The wounds a friend gives can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
7 A full stomach turns away even honey from the comb, but to a hungry stomach anything bitter is sweet.
8 Like a bird wandering from its nest is a man wandering from his place.
9 Oil and perfume make the heart rejoice, and so does the sweetness of a friend's sincere advice.
10 Do not abandon your own friend or your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house on the day of your disaster; better a neighbor close by than a brother far off.
11 Become wise, my son, and gladden my heart, so that I can answer anyone who taunts me.
12 A shrewd man sees danger and hides; the simple go right on and suffer for it.
13 Take the garment of one who has stood surety for a stranger, and hold it in pledge for a foreign woman.
14 If someone blesses his neighbor in a loud voice early in the morning, it will be reckoned to him as a curse.
15 A leak that keeps dripping on a day of downpour and a quarrelsome wife are much the same;
16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind, and his right hand grasps oil.
17 As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the face of his friend.
18 One who tends a fig tree will eat its figs, and one who looks after his master will be honored.
19 As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.
20 Sheol and Abaddon are never filled, and the eyes of man are never filled.
21 The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, and a man is tested by the praise he is given.
22 Even if you pound a fool in a mortar, grinding him with a pestle among the grain, his folly will not leave him.
23 Make sure you know how your flocks are faring, and pay close attention to your herds;
24 for wealth does not last for ever, and does a crown pass on from generation to generation?
25 When the hay is cleared and new grass shows, and the plants of the hills are gathered in,
26 the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field.
27 There will be goats' milk enough to feed you, to feed your household and to nourish your maidservants.