1: Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring 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 weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than them both.
4: Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5: Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
6: Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
7: The full soul trampleth on a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
8: As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
9: Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; and the sweetness of one's friend is [the fruit] of hearty counsel.
10: Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
11: Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me.
12: A prudent [man] seeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; the simple pass on, [and] are punished.
13: Take his garment that is become surety [for] another, and hold him in pledge for a strange woman.
14: He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be reckoned a curse to him.
15: A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:
16: whosoever will restrain her restraineth the wind, and his right hand encountereth oil.
17: Iron is sharpened by iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
18: Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that guardeth his master shall be honoured.
19: As [in] water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.
20: Sheol and destruction are insatiable; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21: The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; so let a man be to the mouth that praiseth him.
22: If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.
23: Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks; look well to thy herds:
24: for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown [endure] from generation to generation?
25: The hay is removed, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered in.
26: The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of a field;
27: and there is goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and sustenance for thy maidens.