271Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.+2Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.+3A stone
is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath
is heavier than them both.+4Wrath
is cruel, and anger
is outrageous; but who
is able to stand before envy?+5Open rebuke
is better than secret love.+6Faithful
are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy
are deceitful.+7The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.+8As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so
is a man that wandereth from his place.+9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so
doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.+10Thine 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.+11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.+12A prudent
man foreseeth the evil,
and hideth himself;
but the simple pass on,
and are punished.+13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.+14He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.+15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.+16Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand,
which bewrayeth
itself.+17Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.+18Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.+19As in water face
answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.+20Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.+21As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so
is a man to his praise.+22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,
yet will not his foolishness depart from him.+23Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks,
and look well to thy herds.+24For riches
are not for ever: and doth the crown
endure
to every generation?+25The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.+26The lambs
are for thy clothing, and the goats
are
the price of the field.+27And
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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