1. DO NOT boast of [yourself and] tomorrow, for you know not what a day may bring forth. [Luke 12:19, 20; James 4:13.]
2. Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
3. Stone is heavy and sand weighty, but a fool's [unreasoning] wrath is heavier and more intolerable than both of them.
4. Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5. Open rebuke is better than love that is hidden. [Prov. 28:23; Gal. 2:14.]
6. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are lavish and deceitful.
7. He who is satiated [with sensual pleasures] loathes and treads underfoot a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
8. Like a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who strays from his home.
9. Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of a friend's counsel that comes from the heart.
10. Your own friend and your father's friend, forsake them not; neither go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near [in spirit] than a brother who is far off [in heart].
11. My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me [as having failed in my parental duty]. [Prov. 10:1; 23:15, 24.]
12. A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished [with suffering].
13. [The judge tells the creditor] Take the garment of one who is security for a stranger; and hold him in pledge when he is security for foreigners. [Prov. 20:16.]