| New Living Translation | NET Bible |
| 1Don’t brag about tomorrow, since you don’t know what the day will bring. | 1Do not boast about tomorrow; for you do not know what a day may bring forth. |
| 2Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth— a stranger, not your own lips. | 2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips. |
| 3A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier. | 3A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but vexation by a fool is more burdensome than the two of them. |
| 4Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood, but jealousy is even more dangerous. | 4Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? |
| 5An open rebuke is better than hidden love! | 5Better is open rebuke than hidden love. |
| 6Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy. | 6Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are excessive. |
| 7A person who is full refuses honey, but even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry. | 7The one whose appetite is satisfied loathes honey, but to the hungry mouth every bitter thing is sweet. |
| 8A person who strays from home is like a bird that strays from its nest. | 8Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a person who wanders from his home. |
| 9The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense. | 9Ointment and incense make the heart rejoice, likewise the sweetness of one's friend from sincere counsel. |
| 10Never abandon a friend— either yours or your father’s. When disaster strikes, you won’t have to ask your brother for assistance. It’s better to go to a neighbor than to a brother who lives far away. | 10Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not enter your brother's house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away. |
| 11Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad. Then I will be able to answer my critics. | 11Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer anyone who taunts me. |
| 12A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. | 12A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it. |
| 13Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt. Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners. | 13Take a man's garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for a stranger, hold him in pledge. |
| 14A loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning will be taken as a curse! | 14If someone blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted as a curse to him. |
| 15A quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping on a rainy day. | 15A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike. |
| 16Stopping her complaints is like trying to stop the wind or trying to hold something with greased hands. | 16Whoever hides her hides the wind or grasps oil with his right hand. |
| 17As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. | 17As iron sharpens iron, so a person sharpens his friend. |
| 18As workers who tend a fig tree are allowed to eat the fruit, so workers who protect their employer’s interests will be rewarded. | 18The one who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever takes care of his master will be honored. |
| 19As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflects the real person. | 19As in water the face is reflected as a face, so a person's heart reflects the person. |
| 20Just as Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so human desire is never satisfied. | 20As Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of a person are never satisfied. |
| 21Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but a person is tested by being praised. | 21As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, so a person is proved by the praise he receives. |
| 22You cannot separate fools from their foolishness, even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle. | 22If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him. |
| 23Know the state of your flocks, and put your heart into caring for your herds, | 23Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds, |
| 24for riches don’t last forever, and the crown might not be passed to the next generation. | 24for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation. |
| 25After the hay is harvested and the new crop appears and the mountain grasses are gathered in, | 25When the hay is removed and new grass appears, and the grass from the hills is gathered in, |
| 26your sheep will provide wool for clothing, and your goats will provide the price of a field. | 26the lambs will be for your clothing, and the goats will be for the price of a field. |
| 27And you will have enough goats’ milk for yourself, your family, and your servant girls. | 27And there will be enough goat's milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls. |
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