Proverbs 27
27
Warnings and Instructions
1Do not boast about tomorrow,
For you do not know what a day may bring forth.
2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
A stranger, and not your own lips.
3A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
4Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood,
But who can stand before jealousy?
5Better is open rebuke
Than love that is concealed.
6Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.
7A sated man loathes honey,
But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet.
8Like a bird that wanders from her nest,
So is a man who wanders from his home.
9Oil and perfume make the heart glad,
So a man’s counsel is sweet to his friend.
10Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
And do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.
11Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad,
That I may reply to him who reproaches me.
12A prudent man sees evil and hides himself,
The naive proceed and pay the penalty.
13Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger;
And for an adulterous woman hold him in pledge.
14He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be reckoned a curse to him.
15A constant dripping on a day of steady rain
And a contentious woman are alike;
16He who would restrain her restrains the wind,
And grasps oil with his right hand.
17Iron sharpens iron,
So one man sharpens another.
18He who tends the fig tree will eat its fruit,
And he who cares for his master will be honored.
19As in water face reflects face,
So the heart of man reflects man.
20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,
Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.
21The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold,
And each is tested by the praise accorded him.
22Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
23Know well the condition of your flocks,
And pay attention to your herds;
24For riches are not forever,
Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
25 When the grass disappears, the new growth is seen,
And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in,
26The lambs will be for your clothing,
And the goats will bring the price of a field,
27And there will be goats’ milk enough for your food,
For the food of your household,
And sustenance for your maidens.
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Mishle 27
27
1Boast not thyself of yom makhar (tomorrow), for thou hast no da'as of what a yom may bring forth.
2Let another praise thee, and not thine own peh (mouth); a nokhri (stranger), and not thine own sfatayim (lips).
3An even (stone) is heavy, and the chol (sand) weighty; but a foolʼs wrath is heavier than them both.
4Chemah (anger) is cruel, and fury is a torrent, but who is able to stand before kinah (jealousy, envy)?
5Open tovah tokhakhat (good, constructive reproof) is better than secret ahavah.
6Ne'emanim (faithful) are the wounds of an ohev (friend); but deceitful the neshikot (kisses) of an enemy.
7The full nefesh trampleth a honeycomb, but to the hungry nefesh every mar (bitter thing) is sweet.
8As a tzippor that wandereth from her ken (nest), so is an ish that wandereth from his makom (place, home).
9Shemen and ketoret rejoice the lev; so doth the sweet discourse of a re'a (friend) from an atzat nefesh (a counselling of the soul).
10Thine own re'a (friend), and the re'a avicha, forsake not; neither go into thy brotherʼs bais in the yom of thy calamity; for better is a shakhen (neighbor) that is near than a brother far off.
11Beni (my son), be chacham, and make my lev glad, that I may answer my accusers.
12A prudent man foreseeth ra'ah, and hideth himself; but the naïve ones trudge on, and are punished.
13Take his beged (garment) that is collateral for a zar; seize the pledge given for surety for a nokhriyah (strange woman, foreign woman, seductress).
14He that maketh a bracha on his re'a (friend) with a kol gadol (loud voice), rising early in the boker, it shall be counted a kelalah to him.
15A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a quarrelsome isha are alike;
16To restrain her is like restraining the ruach (wind), and like grasping shemen in the right hand.
17Barzel (iron) sharpeneth barzel (iron); so one ish sharpeneth another.
18He who is guard over the te'enah (fig tree) shall eat the p'ri (fruit) thereof, so he that is shomer over his adon shall be honored.
19As mayim reflecteth the face, so one lev ha'adam reflects another.
20Sheol and Avaddon are never full; so the eynayim of adam are never satisfied.
21As the crucible is for kesef, and the furnace for zahav; so is an ish tested by the praise he receives.
22Though thou shouldest grind a fool in the makhtesh (mortar) among grain with the pestle, yet will not his folly be removed from him.
23Be thou diligent to know the condition of thy tzon, and look well to thy adarim (flocks).
24For riches are not l'olam (forever); and doth the nezer (crown) endure dor vador?
25The hay is removed, and the deshe (tender grass) showeth itself, and herbs of the harim are gathered,
26The kevasim (lambs) are for thy clothing, and the goats are the purchase price of the sadeh.
27And thou shalt have cholov of izzim (goats) enough for thy lechem, for the lechem of thy bais, and for the nourishment of thy na'arot (servant girls).
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