| | 1 | 不要为明日自夸，因为一日要生何事，你尚且不能知道。
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. | |
| | 2 | 要别人夸奖你，不可用口自夸。等外人称赞你，不可用嘴自称。
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips. | |
| | 3 | 石头重，沙土沉，愚妄人的恼怒，比这两样更重。
Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but provocation by a fool is heavier than both. | |
| | 4 | 忿怒为残忍，怒气为狂澜，惟有嫉妒，谁能敌得住呢？
Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? | |
| | 5 | 当面的责备，强如背地的爱情。
Better is open rebuke than hidden love. | |
| | 6 | 朋友加的伤痕，出于忠诚，仇敌连连亲嘴，却是多余。
Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. | |
| | 7 | 人吃饱了，厌恶蜂房的蜜。人饥饿了，一切苦物都觉甘甜。
He who is full loathes honey, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet. | |
| | 8 | 人离本处飘流，好像雀鸟离窝游飞。
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home. | |
| | 9 | 膏油与香料，使人心喜悦。朋友诚实的劝教，也是如此甘美。
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel. | |
| | 10 | 你的朋友，和父亲的朋友，你都不可离弃。你遭难的日子，不要上弟兄的家去。相近的邻舍，强如远方的弟兄。
Do not forsake your friend and the friend of your father, and do not go to your brother's house when disaster strikes you--better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away. | |
| | 11 | 我儿，你要作智慧人，好叫我的心欢喜，使我可以回答那讥诮我的人。
Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart; then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt. | |
| | 12 | 通达人见祸藏躲。愚蒙人前往受害。
The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. | |
| | 13 | 谁为生人作保，就拿谁的衣服。谁为外女作保，谁就承当。
Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman. | |
| | 14 | 清晨起来，大声给朋友祝福的，就算是咒诅他。
If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse. | |
| | 15 | 大雨之日连连滴漏，和争吵的妇人一样。
A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day; | |
| | 16 | 想拦阻她的，便是拦阻风，也是右手抓油。
restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand. | |
| | 17 | 铁磨铁，磨出刃来。朋友相感，（原文作磨朋友的脸）也是如此。
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |
| | 18 | 看守无花果树的，必吃树上的果子。敬奉主人的，必得尊荣。
He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored. | |
| | 19 | 水中照脸，彼此相符。人与人，心也相对。
As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man. | |
| | 20 | 阴间和灭亡，永不满足。人的眼目，也是如此。
Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are the eyes of man. | |
| | 21 | 鼎为炼银，炉为炼金，人的称赞也试炼人。
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but man is tested by the praise he receives. | |
| | 22 | 你虽用杵，将愚妄人与打碎的麦子一同捣在臼中，他的愚妄还是离不了他。
Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him. | |
| | 23 | 你要详细知道你羊群的景况。留心料理你的牛群。
Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds; | |
| | 24 | 因为赀财不能永有。冠冕岂能存到万代。
for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations. | |
| | 25 | 干草割去，嫩草发现，山上的菜蔬，也被收敛。
When the hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered in, | |
| | 26 | 羊羔之毛，是为你作衣服。山羊是为作田地的价值。
the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field. | |
| | 27 | 并有母山羊奶够你吃，也够你的家眷吃，且够养你的婢女。
You will have plenty of goats' milk to feed you and your family and to nourish your servant girls. | |
