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
4 Wrath
5 Open rebuke
6 Faithful
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
9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so
10 Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity:
11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
12 A prudent
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,
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
20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21 As
22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,
23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks,
24 For riches
25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
26 The lambs
27 And