¹Do not boast ⌞about tomorrow⌟, for you do not know what the day will bring. ²May another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips. ³Heavy is a stone and weighty is sand, but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them. ⁴Cruel is wrath and overwhelming is anger, but who will stand before jealousy? ⁵Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden. ⁶The wounds of a friend mean well, but the kisses of an enemy are profane. ⁷An ⌞appetite⌟ that is sated spurns honey, but to an ⌞appetite⌟ that is ravenous, all bitterness is sweet. ⁸Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is a man who strays from his place. ⁹Perfume and incense will gladden a heart, and the pleasantness of one’s friend is ⌞personal advice⌟. ¹⁰As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake them, and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother. ¹¹Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, and I will answer him who reproaches me with a word. ¹²When the clever sees danger, he hides; the simple go on and suffer. ¹³Take his garment, for he gives surety to a stranger, and to ⌞an adulteress⌟—so take his pledge. ¹⁴He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, a curse will be reckoned to him. ¹⁵Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain and a woman of contention are alike. ¹⁶In restraining her, he restrains wind, and his right hand will grasp oil. ¹⁷As iron sharpens iron, so ⌞one man sharpens another⌟. ¹⁸He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored. ¹⁹As the waters reflect ⌞face to face⌟, so the heart of a person reflects the person. ²⁰Sheol and Abaddon will not be satisfied, and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied either. ²¹A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace for the gold, but a man is tested by the mouth of him who praises him. ²²If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle ⌞along with⌟ the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him. ²³You will surely know the ⌞condition⌟ of your flock; your heart attends to the herds. ²⁴For riches are not forever, nor a crown for generation after generation. ²⁵When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear, and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered. ²⁶Lambs will be your clothing, and goats the price of the field. ²⁷And there will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and the ⌞nourishment⌟ of your maidservants.