1Do not boast about what you will do tomorrow,
2Do not praise yourself [MTY, PRS]; allow others to praise you.
3It causes pain to our bodies to carry heavy stones or a pail full of sand,
4It is cruel to be angry with others, and our being angry sometimes destroys others,
5It is better to correct someone openly
6If a friend criticizes you, he is a good friend and you can trust him;
7When someone’s stomach is full, he does not want to eat honey;
8Anyone who wanders far from his home/family
9Putting olive oil and perfume on a person’s skin causes him to feel good,
10Do not neglect your friends or your parents’ friends;
11My child/son, cause me to be happy by becoming wise,
12Those who have good sense will realize that there is something dangerous ahead, and they will hide;
13You deserve to have your property taken from you
14If you rise early in the morning and call out a greeting to your neighbor while he is still sleeping,
15Having a wife that is constantly nagging
16Trying to restrain/stop her from doing that is as difficult [SIM] as trying to stop the wind
17We can use one iron tool to sharpen another iron tool;
18Those who take care of fig trees will have figs to eat;
19When a person looks in the water, he sees his own face;
20It is as though the place where the dead people are is always wanting more people to die and come there;
21Workers put silver and gold in a very hot furnace to burn out what is impure,
22Even if you beat/crush a fool severely like [MET] you pulverize grain with a pestle,
23Take good care of your flocks of sheep
24because the money that you acquired from selling animals previously will not ◄last/stay with you► forever;
25After you cut the hay [DOU] and store it to feed the animals in the winter while a new crop of hay is growing,
26you will be able to shear the sheep and make clothes from the wool,
27and you will get enough milk from the other goats