¹Do not boast about the day of tomorrow, for you do not know what a day will bear.

²Let a stranger praise you, and not your own mouth; a foreigner, and not your own lips.

³The heaviness of a stone, and the weight of the sand, but a fool's vexation is heavier than both of them.

⁴The cruelty of rage and the flood of anger — but who can stand before the face of jealousy?

⁵Better is uncovered rebuke than love that is hidden.

⁶Faithful are the wounds of one who loves, but the kisses of one who hates are multiplied.

⁷A sated being tramples down dripping honey, but to a hungry being every bitter thing is sweet.

⁸Like a little bird wandering from its nest, so is a man wandering from his place.

⁹Oil and incense make glad the heart, and the sweetness of his neighbor comes from the counsel of the being.

¹⁰Do not forsake your friend and the friend of your father, and do not go into the house of your brother on the day of your calamity; better is a neighbor near than a brother far away.

¹¹Be wise, my son, and make glad my heart, so that I may bring back a word to the one who taunts me.

¹²The shrewd one sees evil and hides himself; the naive pass on and are fined.

¹³Take his garment, for he has gone surety for a stranger; and on behalf of a foreign woman, hold him in pledge.

¹⁴One who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it will be reckoned to him as a curse.

¹⁵A continual dripping on a day of pouring rain and a wife of quarrels are alike.

¹⁶Those who hide her hide the wind, and his right hand meets oil.

¹⁷Iron is sharpened by iron, and a man sharpens the face of his neighbor.

¹⁸One who keeps a fig tree eats its fruit, and one who guards his lord is honored.

¹⁹As with water, face to face, so the heart of one person to another.

²⁰Sheol and Destruction are never satisfied, and the eyes of the person are never satisfied.

²¹A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace for the gold, and a person is tested according to the mouth of his praise

²²Though you pound the fool in the mortar among the grains with the pestle, his foolishness will not depart from him

²³You will surely know the face of your flock; set your heart on the herds

²⁴For riches are not forever, and does a crown last from one generation to the next?

²⁵The grass is uncovered and vegetation is seen, and the herbage of the mountains is gathered

²⁶The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field.

²⁷And there is enough milk of she-goats for your food, for the food of your household, and life for your girls.