1. 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.
3. A stone is heavy and sand a burden, but provocation by a fool is heavier than both.
4. Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
5. Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
6. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but excessive the kisses of an enemy.
7. One who is full loathes honeycomb, but to one who is hungry every bitter thing is sweet.
8. Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man that wanders from his home.
9. As ointment and perfume gladden the heart, so the sweetness of one’s friend comes from his sincere counsel.
10. Do not forsake your friend, or your father’s friend, nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster— better a neighbor nearby than a brother far off.
11. Be wise, my son, make my heart glad, so I may answer anyone who taunts me.
12. The prudent see danger and hide, but the naïve keep going and pay the penalty.
13. Take a man’s garment, who puts up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge, as security for a seductive woman.
14. If someone blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
15. Continual dripping on a day of steady rain and a contentious wife are alike—