| 1 | ¶ Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth. | |
| 2 | ¶ Let another 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 vexation is heavier than them both. | |
| 4 | Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy? | |
| 5 | ¶ Open rebuke is better than hidden love. | |
| 6 | Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are profuse. | |
| 7 | ¶ The full soul trampleth on a 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; and the sweetness of one?s friend is {the fruit} of hearty counsel. | |
| 10 | Thine own friend, and thy father?s friend, forsake not; and go not into thy brother?s house in the day of thy calamity: better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off. | |
| 11 | ¶ Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me. | |
| 12 | ¶ A prudent {man} seeth the evil, {and} hideth himself; the simple pass on, {and} are punished. | |
| 13 | ¶ Take his garment that is become surety {for} another, and hold him in pledge for a strange woman. | |
| 14 | ¶ He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be reckoned a curse to him. | |
| 15 | ¶ A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike: | |
| 16 | whosoever will restrain her restraineth the wind, and his right hand encountereth oil. | |
| 17 | ¶ Iron is sharpened by iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. | |
| 18 | ¶ Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that guardeth his master shall be honoured. | |
| 19 | ¶ As {in} water face {answereth} to face, so the heart of man to man. | |
| 20 | ¶ Sheol and destruction are insatiable; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. | |
| 21 | ¶ The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; so let a man be to the mouth that praiseth him. | |
| 22 | ¶ If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him. | |
| 23 | ¶ Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks; look well to thy herds: | |
| 24 | for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown {endure} from generation to generation? | |
| 25 | The hay is removed, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered in. | |
| 26 | The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of a field; | |
| 27 | and there is goats? milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and sustenance for thy maidens. | |