CLV(i)
1 Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do not know what a day may generate."
2 Let a stranger praise you, and not your own mouth, A foreigner, and certainly not your own lips."
3 Heavy is stone, and weighty is sand, Yet vexation from a fool is heavier than them both."
4 Fury is cruel, and anger overwhelming, Yet who can stand before jealousy?
5 Better is exposed reproof, Than love that is concealed."
6 Faithful are the injuries of one in friendship, Yet shifty are the kisses of one who hates."
7 The soul that is surfeited tramples on honeycomb, Yet to the famished soul, any bitter thing is sweet."
8 Like a bird that wanders from its nest, So is a man who wanders from his place."
9 Oil and incense rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's associate stems from the counsel of his soul."
10 Do not forsake your associate or your father's associate; Do not set out to your brother's house in the day of your calamity; Better a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.
11 Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart, So that I can return a good word to him who challenges me."
12 A prudent man sees peril and conceals himself; The simple pass along and are mulcted.
13 Take his cloak, for he has become surety for an alien, And since it is in behalf of a foreign woman, hold it in pledge."
14 He who blesses his associate with a loud voice early in the morning--It shall be reckoned to him as a malediction.
15 A persistent leaking on a blustery day And a quarrelsome wife--it is equal;
16 He who stifles her can stifle the wind And can dictate to oil in his right hand.
17 As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the acumen of his associate."
18 He who nurtures a fig tree shall eat its fruit, And he who guards his lord shall be glorified."
19 As water reflects face to face, So does one man's heart to another man."
20 The unseen and Abaddon are never satisfied, And the eyes of man are also never satisfied."
21 The smelter for silver and the crucible for gold, Yet a man is tested corresponding to his praise."
22 Though you bray the fool in a mortar, In the midst of the grist with a pestle, His folly shall not go away from him."
23 You should know, yea know, the condition of your flock; Set your heart upon your droves."
24 For assets do not last for an eon, Nor does a treasure for generation after generation."
25 When the grass is carried away and new verdure is seen, And the herbage of the mountains is gathered in,
26 The he-lambs will supply your clothing, And the he-goats the price of a field;"
27 There will be sufficient goat milk for your nourishment and for your household's nourishment, And the means of life for your maidens."