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- Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth.
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- Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth;
a stranger, and not thine own lips.
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- A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty;
but a fool's vexation is heavier than them both.
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- Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous;
but who is able to stand before jealousy?
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- Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
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- Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
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- The full soul trampleth on a honeycomb;
but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
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- As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
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- Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart;
and the sweetness of one's friend is [the fruit] of hearty counsel.
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- Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not;
and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
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- Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me.
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- A prudent [man] seeth the evil, [and] hideth himself;
the simple pass on, [and] are punished.
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- Take his garment that is become surety [for] another, and hold him in pledge for a strange woman.
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- He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be reckoned a curse to him.
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- A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:
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- whosoever will restrain her restraineth the wind, and his right hand encountereth oil.
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- Iron is sharpened by iron;
so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
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- Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof;
and he that guardeth his master shall be honoured.
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- As [in] water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.
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- Sheol and destruction are insatiable;
so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
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- The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold;
so let a man be to the mouth that praiseth him.
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- If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.
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- Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks;
look well to thy herds:
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- for wealth is not for ever;
and doth the crown [endure] from generation to generation?
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- The hay is removed, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered in.
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- The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of a field;
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- and there is goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and sustenance for thy maidens.
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