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Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. |
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Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. |
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A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both. |
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Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming; but who can stand before jealousy? |
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Better is open rebuke than hidden love. |
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Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy. |
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He who is sated loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet. |
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Like a bird that strays from its nest, is a man who strays from his home. |
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Oil and perfume make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble. |
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Your friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake; and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away. |
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Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me. |
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A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it. |
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Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners. |
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He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing. |
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A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike; |
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to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in his right hand. |
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Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. |
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He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored. |
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As in water face answers to face, so the mind of man reflects the man. |
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Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man. |
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The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is judged by his praise. |
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Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him. |
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Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds; |
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for riches do not last for ever; and does a crown endure to all generations? |
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When the grass is gone, and the new growth appears, and the herbage of the mountains is gathered, |
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the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field; |
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there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your maidens. |
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