1 Do not congratulate yourself about tomorrow, since you do not know what today will bring forth.
Jas 4:13-16 Luke 12:19-20 1Sam 28:19 2Cor 6:2 Isa 56:12 Ps 95:7 2 Let someone else sing your praises, but not your own mouth, a stranger, but not your own lips.
2Cor 10:18 Prov 25:27 2Cor 10:12 2Cor 12:11 3 Heavy is the stone, weighty is the sand; heavier than both -- a grudge borne by a fool.
Prov 17:12 1John 3:12 1Sam 22:18-19 Dan 3:19 Esth 3:5-6 Gen 34:25-26 Gen 49:7 4 Cruel is wrath, overwhelming is anger; but jealousy, who can withstand that?
Prov 6:34 Acts 7:9 Jas 3:14-16 Job 5:2 Prov 14:30 1John 3:12 Acts 5:17 5 Better open reproof than feigned love.
Prov 28:23 Gal 2:14 1Tim 5:20 Matt 18:15 Lev 19:17 6 Trustworthy are blows from a friend, deceitful are kisses from a foe.
Ps 141:5 Rev 3:19 2Sam 12:7-15 2Sam 20:9-10 Heb 12:10 Job 5:17-18 Matt 26:48-50 7 The gorged throat revolts at honey, the hungry throat finds all bitterness sweet.
Num 11:18-20 Num 21:5 Luke 15:16-17 Num 11:4-9 Job 6:7 John 6:9 8 Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is anyone who strays away from home.
Isa 16:2 Jonah 1:10-17 Gen 16:6-8 Jonah 1:3 Prov 21:16 1Cor 7:20 1Kgs 19:9 9 Oil and perfume gladden the heart, and the sweetness of friendship rather than self-reliance.
Ps 133:2 Song 4:10 1Sam 23:16-17 2Cor 2:15-16 Acts 28:15 Exod 18:17-24 Ezra 10:2-4 10 Do not give up your friend or your father's friend; when trouble comes, do not go off to your brother's house, better a near neighbour than a distant brother.
Prov 17:17 1Kgs 12:6-8 Prov 18:24 Luke 10:30-37 Obad 1:12-14 2Chr 10:6-8 2Chr 24:22 11 Learn to be wise, my child, and gladden my heart, that I may have an answer for anyone who insults me.
Prov 10:1 Ps 119:42 Prov 23:15-16 2John 1:4 Eccl 2:18-21 Phlm 1:7 Phlm 1:19-20 12 The discreet sees danger and takes shelter, simpletons go ahead and pay the penalty.
Prov 22:3 2Pet 3:10-14 Prov 18:10 2Pet 3:7 Exod 9:20-21 Heb 6:18 Heb 11:7 13 Take the man's clothes! He has gone surety for a stranger. Take a pledge from him, for persons unknown.
Prov 20:16 Prov 6:1-4 Exod 22:26 Prov 22:26-27 14 Whoever at dawn loudly blesses his neighbour -- it will be reckoned to him as a curse.
2Sam 16:16-19 Acts 12:22-23 1Kgs 22:6 1Kgs 22:13 2Sam 15:2-7 2Sam 17:7-13 Jer 28:2-4 15 The dripping of a gutter on a rainy day and a quarrelsome woman are alike;
Prov 19:13 Prov 21:9 Prov 21:19 Job 14:19 Prov 25:24 16 whoever can restrain her, can restrain the wind, and take a firm hold on grease.
John 12:3 17 Iron is sharpened by iron, one person is sharpened by contact with another.
Heb 10:24 Prov 27:9 Job 4:3-4 1Sam 23:16 2Tim 2:3 Isa 35:3-4 1Pet 4:12-13 18 Whoever tends the fig tree eats its figs, whoever looks after his master will be honoured.
1Cor 9:7 Song 8:12 2Tim 2:6 1Cor 3:8 Luke 12:37 Luke 12:43-44 Prov 22:29 19 As water reflects face back to face, so one human heart reflects another.
Gen 6:5 Jas 1:22-25 Mark 7:21 Ps 33:15 20 Sheol and Perdition are never satisfied, insatiable, too, are human eyes.
Eccl 1:8 Prov 30:15-16 Hab 2:5 Eccl 2:10-11 Eccl 6:7 1John 2:16 Eccl 4:8 21 A furnace for silver, a foundry for gold: a person is worth what his reputation is worth.
Prov 17:3 1Pet 1:7 1Pet 4:12 1Sam 18:7-8 1Sam 18:15-16 1Sam 18:30 2Sam 14:25 22 Pound a fool in a mortar, among grain with a pestle, his folly will not leave him.
Jer 5:3 Prov 23:35 Isa 1:5 Exod 12:30 2Chr 28:22-23 Exod 14:5 Exod 15:9 23 Know your flocks' condition well, take good care of your herds;
1Pet 5:2 John 21:15-17 Prov 24:32 1Chr 27:29-31 1Sam 17:28 2Chr 26:10 Deut 32:46 24 for riches do not last for ever, crowns do not hand themselves on from age to age.
Prov 23:5 1Tim 6:17-18 2Sam 7:16 Isa 9:7 Jas 1:10 Ps 89:36 Zeph 1:18 25 The grass once gone, the aftergrowth appearing, the hay gathered in from the mountains,
Ps 104:14 Prov 10:5 26 you should have lambs to clothe you, goats to buy you a field,
Job 31:20 27 goat's milk sufficient to feed you, to feed your household and provide for your serving girls.
Matt 6:33 Prov 30:8-9 |