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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 the day will bring.
2 Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips.
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May another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
3 Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
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Heavy [is] a stone and weighty [is] sand, but [the] provocation of a fool [is] heavier than both of them.
4 Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
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Cruel [is] wrath and overwhelming [is] anger, but who will stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
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Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden.
6 Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
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The wounds of a friend mean well, but the kisses of an enemy are profane.
7 One who is full loathes honey from the comb, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.
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An {appetite} that is sated spurns honey, but [to] an {appetite} that is ravenous, all bitterness [is] sweet.
8 Like a bird that flees its nest is anyone who flees from home.
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Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is a man who strays from his place.
9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice.
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Perfume and incense will gladden a heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend [is] {personal advice}.
10 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.
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As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake [them], and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.
11 Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart; then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt.
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Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, and I will answer him who reproaches me [with] a word.
12 The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
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[When] the clever sees danger, he hides; the simple go on [and] suffer.
13 Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.
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Take his garment, for he gives surety [to] a stranger, and to {an adulteress}--[so] take his pledge.
14 If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
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He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, a curse will be reckoned to him.
15 A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;
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Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain and a woman of contention are alike.
16 restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.
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[In] restraining her, he restrains wind, and his right hand will grasp oil.
17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
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[As] iron sharpens iron, so {one man sharpens another}.
18 The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever protects their master will be honored.
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He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
19 As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.
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As the waters [reflect] {face to face}, so the heart of a person [reflects] the person.
20 Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are human eyes.
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Sheol and Abaddon will not be satisfied, and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied [either].
21 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but people are tested by their praise.
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A crucible [is] for the silver, and a furnace for the gold, but a man [is tested by] the mouth of him who praises him.
22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.
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If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle {along with} the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him.
23 Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds;
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You will surely know the {condition} of your flock; your heart attends to the herds.
24 for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.
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For riches [are] not forever, nor a crown for generation [after] generation.
25 When the hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered in,
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When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear, and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered.
26 the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.
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Lambs [will be] your clothing, and goats the price of the field.
27 You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed your family and to nourish your female servants.
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And [there will be] enough goats' milk for your food, for [the] food of your household and [the] {nourishment} of your maidservants.