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1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
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Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth— a stranger, and not your own lips.
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Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips.
3 A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
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Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?
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Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
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Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
6 Well meant are the wounds a friend inflicts, but profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
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Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
7 The sated appetite spurns honey, but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet.
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One who is full loathes honey from the comb, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.
8 Like a bird that strays from its nest is one who strays from home.
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Like a bird that flees its nest is anyone who flees from home.
9 Perfume and incense make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble.
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Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice.
10 Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent; do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is nearby than kindred who are far away.
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Do 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 Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer whoever reproaches me.
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Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart; then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt.
12 The clever see danger and hide; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
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The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
13 Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.
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Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.
14 Whoever blesses a neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
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If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
15 A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;
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A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;
16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in the right hand.
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restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.
17 Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens the wits of another.
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As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
18 Anyone who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and anyone who takes care of a master will be honored.
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The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever protects their master will be honored.
19 Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another.
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As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.
20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and human eyes are never satisfied.
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Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are human eyes.
21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, so a person is tested by being praised.
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The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but people are tested by their praise.
22 Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, but the folly will not be driven out.
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Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.
23 Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds;
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Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds;
24 for riches do not last forever, nor a crown for all generations.
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for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.
25 When the grass is gone, and new growth appears, and the herbage of the mountains is gathered,
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When the hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered in,
26 the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field;
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the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.
27 there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and nourishment for your servant-girls.
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You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed your family and to nourish your female servants.
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