## Instructions and Warnings 

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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 a stranger praise you, and not your own mouth; A foreigner, and not your own lips. 

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A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, But the provocation of an ignorant fool is heavier than both of them. 

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Wrath is cruelty and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy? 

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Better is reproof that is revealed Than love that is hidden. 

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Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy. 

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A satisfied soul tramples the honeycomb, But to a hungry soul any bitter thing is sweet. 

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Like a bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who wanders from his place. 

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Oil and incense make the heart glad, So counsel from the soul is sweet to his friend. 

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Do not forsake your friend or your father's friend, And do not come to your brother's house in the day of your disaster; Better is one who dwells near than a brother far away. 

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Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, That I may respond with a word to him who reproaches me. 

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A prudent man sees evil _and_ hides, The simple pass on _and_ are punished. 

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Take his garment when he becomes a guarantor for a stranger; And for a foreign woman seize it as a pledge. 

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He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning, It will be counted as a curse to him. 

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A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike; 

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He who would restrain her restrains the wind, And grasps oil with his right hand. 

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Iron sharpens iron, So one man sharpens another. 

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He who guards the fig tree will eat its fruit, And he who keeps _watch for_ his master will be honored. 

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As in water face _reflects_ face, So the heart of man _reflects_ man. 

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Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, So the eyes of man are never satisfied. 

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The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, And each _is tested_ by the mouth that praises him. 

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Though you pound an ignorant fool in a mortar with a pestle in the midst of crushed grain, His folly will not turn aside from him. 

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Know well the condition of your flocks, _And_ pay attention to your herds; 

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For wealth is not forever, Neither is a crown from generation to generation. 

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_When_ the grass disappears and the vegetation appears, And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in, 

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The lambs _will be_ for your clothing, And the goats _will bring_ the price of a field, 

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And _there will be enough_ goats' milk for your food, For the food of your household, And sustenance for your maidens.