| 1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what the future day may bring. | 1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. |
| 2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth: an outsider, and not your own lips. | 2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. |
| 3 A stone is weighty, and sand is burdensome; but the wrath of the foolish is heavier than both. | 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. |
| 4 Anger holds no mercy, nor does fury when it erupts. And who can bear the assault of one who has been provoked? | 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? |
| 5 An open rebuke is better than hidden love. | 5 Open rebuke is better than secret love. |
| 6 The wounds of a loved one are better than the deceitful kisses of a hateful one. | 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. |
| 7 A sated soul will trample the honeycomb. And a hungry soul will accept even bitter in place of sweet. | 7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. |
| 8 Just like a bird migrating from her nest, so also is a man who abandons his place. | 8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. |
| 9 Ointment and various perfumes delight the heart. And the good advice of a friend is sweet to the soul. | 9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. |
| 10 Do not dismiss your friend or your father’s friend. And do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your affliction. A close neighbor is better than a distant brother. | 10 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off. |
| 11 My son, study wisdom, and rejoice my heart, so that you may be able to respond to the one who reproaches. | 11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. |
| 12 The discerning man, seeing evil, hides himself. The little ones, continuing on, sustain losses. | 12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. |
| 13 Take away the garment of him who has vouched for an outsider. And take a pledge from him on behalf of foreigners. | 13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. |
| 14 Whoever blesses his neighbor with a grand voice, rising in the night, shall be like one who curses. | 14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him. |
| 15 A roof leaking on a cold day, and an argumentative woman, are comparable. | 15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. |
| 16 He who would restrain her, he is like one who would grasp the wind, or who would gather together oil with his right hand. | 16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself. |
| 17 Iron sharpens iron, and a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. | 17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. |
| 18 Whoever maintains the fig tree shall eat its fruit. And whoever is the keeper of his master shall be glorified. | 18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. |
| 19 In the manner of faces looking into shining water, so are the hearts of men made manifest to the prudent. | 19 As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. |
| 20 Hell and perdition are never filled; similarly the eyes of men are insatiable. | 20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. |
| 21 In the manner of silver being tested in the refinery, and gold in the furnace, so also is a man tested by the mouth of one who praises. The heart of the iniquitous inquires after evils, but the heart of the righteous inquires after knowledge. | 21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise. |
| 22 Even if you were to crush the foolish with a mortar, as when a pestle strikes over pearled barley, his foolishness would not be taken from him. | 22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. |
| 23 Be diligent to know the countenance of your cattle, and consider your own flocks, | 23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. |
| 24 for you will not always hold this power. But a crown shall be awarded from generation to generation. | 24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? |
| 25 The meadows are open, and the green plants have appeared, and the hay has been collected from the mountains. | 25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. |
| 26 Lambs are for your clothing, and goats are for the price of a field. | 26 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. |
| 27 Let the milk of goats be sufficient for your food, and for the necessities of your household, and for the provisions of your handmaids. | 27 And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens. |
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