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1 - Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.

2 - Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.

3 - A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.

4 - Anger hath no mercy: nor fury, when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

5 - Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

6 - Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy.

7 - A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet.

8 - As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.

9 - Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.

10 - Thy own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not: and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a neighbour that is near than a brother afar off.

11 - Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.

12 - The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.

13 - Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.

14 - He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth.

15 - Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.

16 - He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call the oil of his right hand.

17 - Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

18 - He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eat the fruit thereof: and he that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified.

19 - As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so the hearts of men are laid open to the wise.

20 - Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.

21 - As silver is tried in the fining-pot, and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after knowledge.

22 - Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.

23 - Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks:

24 - For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.

25 - The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered out of the mountains.

26 - Lambs are for thy clothing: and kids for the price of the field.

27 - Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the necessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids.