| 1 | Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. |
| 2 | Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. |
| 3 | A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both. |
| 4 | Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy? |
| 5 | Open rebuke [is] better than secret love. |
| 6 | Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful. |
| 7 | The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. |
| 8 | As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place. |
| 9 | Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. |
| 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, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. |
| 12 | A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished. |
| 13 | Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. |
| 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 continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. |
| 16 | Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself]. |
| 17 | Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. |
| 18 | Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. |
| 19 | As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man. |
| 20 | Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. |
| 21 | [As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise. |
| 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 thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds. |
| 24 | For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation? |
| 25 | The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. |
| 26 | The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field. |
| 27 | And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens. |
