| 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. |