1) Do not boast about tomorrow, because you do not know what that day will bring.
2) Let someone else praise you, and not your mouth; let someone else praise you, and not your tongue.
3) The stone, weight and sand are heavy; but the wrath of a fool is greater than both of them.
4) Anger is cruel, rage is indomitable; but who can resist jealousy?
5) Open reproof is better than hidden love.
6) Sincere reproaches from a lover, and deceitful kisses from a hater.
7) A well-fed soul tramples on honeycombs, but to a hungry soul all bitter things are sweet.
8) Like a bird that leaves its nest, so a man who leaves his place.
9) Ointment and smoking make the heart happy; a friend is so sweet to everyone with his heartfelt advice.
10) Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house on the day of your misfortune: better is a neighbor near than a brother far away.
11) Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad; and I will have something to answer for him who slanderes me.
12) The prudent man sees the trouble and takes refuge; and the inexperienced go ahead and are punished.
13) Take his robe from him, because he stood surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for a stranger.
14) He who loudly praises his friend early in the morning will be considered a slanderer.
15) Constant dripping on a rainy day and a grumpy wife are equal:
16) whoever wants to hide it wants to hide the wind and the suit in his right hand, which makes itself known.
17) Iron sharpens iron, and a man sharpens the sight of his friend.
18) He who guards the fig tree will eat its fruit; and whoever takes care of his master will be honored.
19) Just as in water there is face to face, so a person’s heart is to man.
20) Sheol and Abaddon are insatiable; so insatiable are human eyes. [He who lifts up his eyes insolently is an abomination to the Lord, and those who are intemperate with their tongue are foolish.]
21) As a smelter is for silver, and a furnace is for gold, so is a man’s mouth that praises him. [The heart of the wicked seeks evil, but the heart of the right seeks knowledge.]
22) Beat a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with the grain; his stupidity will not be separated from him.
23) Take good care of your livestock, take care of your flocks;
24) because wealth is not forever, and is power from generation to generation?
25) The grass languishes and greenery appears, and mountain herbs are gathered.
26) The sheep are for your clothing, and the goats are for buying a field.
27) And there will be enough goat's milk for food for you, for food for your household, and for food for your maidservants.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru