1Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. (لو 12:19; يع 4:13)2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. (أم 25:27; 2كو 10:12; 2كو 10:18; 2كو 12:11)3A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both. (أم 12:16; أم 17:12)4Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? (أم 6:34)5Better is open rebuke than hidden love. (أم 28:23)6Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy. (مز 141:5)7One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet. (أم 25:16)8Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home. (أم 26:2)9Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.[1] (مز 23:5)10Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away. (1مل 12:6; 2أخ 10:6; أم 17:17)11Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me. (مز 119:42; مز 127:5; أم 6:6; أم 10:1; أم 23:15; أم 23:24; أم 29:3)12The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. (أم 1:4; أم 22:3)13Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.[2] (أم 20:16)14Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.15A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; (أم 19:13)16to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp[3] oil in one’s right hand.17Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.[4]18Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored. (نش 8:12; مت 25:21; 1كو 3:8; 1كو 9:7; 2تي 2:6)19As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man. (أي 26:6; أم 1:12; أم 15:11; أم 30:15; جا 1:8; جا 4:8; حب 2:5)21The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise. (أم 17:3)22Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him. (أم 23:35; إش 1:5; إر 5:3)23Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds, (يو 10:3; يو 10:14; أع 20:28; 1بط 5:2; 1بط 5:4)24for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations? (أم 23:5)25When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered, (مز 37:2; مز 90:5)26the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field. (1تي 6:8)27There will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls. (أم 27:26)