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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Do not boast about tomorrow; for you do not know what a day may bring forth. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but vexation by a fool is more burdensome than the two of them. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Better is open rebuke than hidden love. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are excessive. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The one whose appetite is satisfied loathes honey, but to the hungry mouth every bitter thing is sweet. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a person who wanders from his home. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Ointment and incense make the heart rejoice, likewise the sweetness of one's friend from sincere counsel. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not enter your brother's house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer anyone who taunts me. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Take a man's garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for a stranger, hold him in pledge. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If someone blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted as a curse to him. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Whoever hides her hides the wind or grasps oil with his right hand. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17As iron sharpens iron, so a person sharpens his friend. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The one who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever takes care of his master will be honored. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19As in water the face is reflected as a face, so a person's heart reflects the person. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20As Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of a person are never satisfied. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, so a person is proved by the praise he receives. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When the hay is removed and new grass appears, and the grass from the hills is gathered in, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26the lambs will be for your clothing, and the goats will be for the price of a field. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And there will be enough goat's milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls. |
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