| 1 | Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. |
| 2 | Let another praise you, and not your own mouth — a stranger, and not your own lips. |
| 3 | A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both. |
| 4 | Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy? |
| 5 | Better is open rebuke than hidden love. |
| 6 | Well meant are the wounds a friend inflicts, but profuse are the kisses of an enemy. |
| 7 | The sated appetite spurns honey, but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet. |
| 8 | Like a bird that strays from its nest is one who strays from home. |
| 9 | Perfume and incense make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble. |
| 10 | Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent; do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is nearby than kindred who are far away. |
| 11 | Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer whoever reproaches me. |
| 12 | The clever see danger and hide; but the simple go on, and suffer for it. |
| 13 | Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners. |
| 14 | Whoever blesses a neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing. |
| 15 | A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike; |
| 16 | to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in the right hand. |
| 17 | Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens the wits of another. |
| 18 | Anyone who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and anyone who takes care of a master will be honored. |
| 19 | Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another. |
| 20 | Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and human eyes are never satisfied. |
| 21 | The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, so a person is tested by being praised. |
| 22 | Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, but the folly will not be driven out. |
| 23 | Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds; |
| 24 | for riches do not last forever, nor a crown for all generations. |
| 25 | When the grass is gone, and new growth appears, and the herbage of the mountains is gathered, |
| 26 | the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field; |
| 27 | there will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and nourishment for your servant-girls. |
