Proverbs 27
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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
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Jas 4.13-16. Boast not thyself of tomorrow;
for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
2Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth;
a stranger, and not thine own lips.
3A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty;
but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
4Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous;
but who is able to stand before envy?
5Open rebuke is better than secret love.
6Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
7The full soul loatheth a honeycomb;
but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
8As a bird that wandereth from her nest,
so is a man that wandereth from his place.
9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart:
so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
10Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not;
neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity:
for better is a neighbor that is near
than a brother far off.
11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad,
that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
12A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself;
but the simple pass on, and are punished.
13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger,
and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
14He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice,
rising early in the morning,
it shall be counted a curse to him.
15A continual dropping in a very rainy day
and a contentious woman are alike.
16Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind,
and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
17Iron sharpeneth iron;
so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
18Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof:
so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored.
19As in water face answereth to face,
so the heart of man to man.
20Hell and destruction are never full;
so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold;
so is a man to his praise.
22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,
yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
23Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks,
and look well to thy herds:
24for riches are not for ever:
and doth the crown endure to every generation?
25The hay appeareth,
and the tender grass showeth itself,
and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
26The lambs are for thy clothing,
and the goats are the price of the field.
27And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food,
for the food of thy household,
and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
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