Proverbs 27
27
1Don’t brag about what will happen tomorrow.
You don’t really know what will happen then.
2Don’t praise yourself. Let someone else do it.
Let the praise come from a stranger and not from your own mouth.
3Stone is heavy, and sand is hard to carry.
But the complaining of a foolish person causes more trouble than either.
4Anger is cruel. It destroys like a flood.
But who can put up with jealousy!
5It is better to correct someone openly
than to love him and not show it.
6The slap of a friend can be trusted to help you.
But the kisses of an enemy are nothing but lies.
7When someone is full, not even honey tastes good.
But when he is hungry, even something bitter tastes sweet.
8A man who leaves his home
is like a bird that leaves its nest.
9Perfume and oils make you happy.
And good advice from a friend is sweet.
10Don’t forget your friend or your father’s friend.
Don’t always go to your brother for help when trouble comes.
A neighbor close by is better than a brother far away.
11Be wise, my child, and you will make me happy.
Then I can respond to any insult.
12When a wise person sees danger ahead, he avoids it.
But a foolish person keeps going and gets into trouble.
13Take the coat of someone who promises to pay what a stranger owes.
Keep it until he pays the stranger’s bills.
14Don’t greet your neighbor loudly early in the morning.
He will think of it as a curse.
15A quarreling wife is as bothersome
as a continual dripping on a rainy day.
16Stopping her is like stopping the wind.
It’s like trying to grab oil in your hand.
17Iron can sharpen iron.
In the same way, people can help each other.
18The person who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit.
And the person who takes care of his master will be honored.
19As water shows you your face,
so your mind shows you what kind of person you are.
20People will never stop dying and being destroyed.
In the same way, people will never stop wanting more than they have.
21A hot furnace tests silver and gold.
And people are tested by the praise they receive.
22Even if you ground up a foolish person like grain in a bowl,
you couldn’t remove his foolishness.
23Be sure you know how your sheep are doing.
Pay close attention to the condition of your cattle.
24Riches will not continue forever.
Nor do governments continue forever.
25Bring in the hay. Let the new grass appear.
Gather the grass from the hills.
26Make clothes from the lambs’ wool.
Sell some goats to buy a field.
27There will be plenty of goat milk
to feed you and your family.
It will make your servant girls healthy.
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Proverbs 27
27
1Do#Luke 12:19–21; James 4:13–16 not boast about tomorrow,
For you do not know what a day may bring forth.
2#Prov. 25:27; 2 Cor. 10:12, 18; 12:11Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth;
A stranger, and not your own lips.
3A stone is heavy and sand is weighty,
But a fool’s wrath is heavier than both of them.
4Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent,
But #Prov. 6:34; 1 John 3:12who is able to stand before jealousy?
5#(Prov. 28:23); Gal. 2:14Open rebuke is better
Than love carefully concealed.
6Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But the kisses of an enemy are #Matt. 26:49deceitful.
7A satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb,
But to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
8Like a bird that wanders from its nest
Is a man who wanders from his place.
9Ointment and perfume delight the heart,
And the sweetness of a man’s friend gives delight by hearty counsel.
10Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
Nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
#Prov. 17:17; 18:24Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad,
#Prov. 10:1; 23:15–26That I may answer him who reproaches me.
12A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself;
The simple pass on and are #Prov. 22:3punished.
13Take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger,
And hold it in pledge when he is surety for a seductress.
14He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,
It will be counted a curse to him.
15A #Prov. 19:13continual dripping on a very rainy day
And a contentious woman are alike;
16Whoever restrains her restrains the wind,
And grasps oil with his right hand.
17As iron sharpens iron,
So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
18#2 Kin. 18:31; Song 8:12; Is. 36:16; (1 Cor. 3:8; 9:7–13); 2 Tim. 2:6Whoever keeps the fig tree will eat its fruit;
So he who waits on his master will be honored.
19As in water face reflects face,
So a man’s heart reveals the man.
20#Prov. 30:15, 16; Hab. 2:5Hell and Destruction are never full;
So #Eccl. 1:8; 4:8the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21#Prov. 17:3The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
And a man is valued by what others say of him.
22#Prov. 23:35; 26:11; Jer. 5:3Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
23Be diligent to know the state of your #Prov. 24:27flocks,
And attend to your herds;
24For riches are not forever,
Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
25#Ps. 104:14When the hay is removed, and the tender grass shows itself,
And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in,
26The lambs will provide your clothing,
And the goats the price of a field;
27You shall have enough goats’ milk for your food,
For the food of your household,
And the nourishment of your maidservants.
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