New Living Translation NLT
King James Version KJV
1 Don’t brag about tomorrow, since you don’t know what the day will bring.
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Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
2 Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth— a stranger, not your own lips.
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Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
3 A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier.
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A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
4 Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood, but jealousy is even more dangerous.
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Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
5 An open rebuke is better than hidden love!
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Open rebuke is better than secret love.
6 Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy.
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Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
7 A person who is full refuses honey, but even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry.
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The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
8 A person who strays from home is like a bird that strays from its nest.
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As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
9 The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense.
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Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
10 Never abandon a friend— either yours or your father’s. When disaster strikes, you won’t have to ask your brother for assistance. It’s better to go to a neighbor than to a brother who lives far away.
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Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
11 Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad. Then I will be able to answer my critics.
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My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
12 A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.
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A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
13 Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt. Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.
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Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
14 A loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning will be taken as a curse!
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He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
15 A quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping on a rainy day.
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A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
16 Stopping her complaints is like trying to stop the wind or trying to hold something with greased hands.
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Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
17 As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
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Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
18 As workers who tend a fig tree are allowed to eat the fruit, so workers who protect their employer’s interests will be rewarded.
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Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
19 As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflects the real person.
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As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
20 Just as Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so human desire is never satisfied.
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Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21 Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but a person is tested by being praised.
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As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
22 You cannot separate fools from their foolishness, even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.
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Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
23 Know the state of your flocks, and put your heart into caring for your herds,
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Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
24 for riches don’t last forever, and the crown might not be passed to the next generation.
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For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
25 After the hay is harvested and the new crop appears and the mountain grasses are gathered in,
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The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
26 your sheep will provide wool for clothing, and your goats will provide the price of a field.
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The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
27 And you will have enough goats’ milk for yourself, your family, and your servant girls.
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And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
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