| 27 | Proverbs | ||
| 1 | Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. | ||
| 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 can stand before jealousy? | ||
| 5 | Better is open rebuke than hidden love. | ||
| 6 | Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy. | ||
| 7 | He who is sated loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet. | ||
| 8 | Like a bird that strays from its nest, is a man who strays from his home. | ||
| 9 | Oil and perfume make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble. | ||
| 10 | Your friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake; and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbour who is near than a brother who is far away. | ||
| 11 | Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me. | ||
| 12 | A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it. | ||
| 13 | Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners. | ||
| 14 | He who blesses his neighbour 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 woman are alike; | ||
| 16 | to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in his right hand. | ||
| 17 | Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. | ||
| 18 | He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honoured. | ||
| 19 | As in water face answers to face, so the mind of man reflects the man. | ||
| 20 | Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man. | ||
| 21 | The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is judged by his praise. | ||
| 22 | Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him. | ||
| 23 | Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds; | ||
| 24 | for riches do not last for ever; and does a crown endure to all generations? | ||
| 25 | When the grass is gone, and the 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 maintenance for your maidens. | ||
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