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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. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Anger is cruel and fury 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] | 6Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7One who is full loathes honey from the comb, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Like a bird that flees its nest is anyone who flees from home. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative's house when disaster strikes you-- better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart; then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm; |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever protects their master will be honored. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19As water reflects the face, so one's life reflects the heart. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are human eyes. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but people are tested by their praise. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds; |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When the hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered in, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27You will have plenty of goats' milk to feed your family and to nourish your female servants. |
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