Proverbs 27
27
Don't Brag about Tomorrow
1 #
Jas 4.13-16. Don't brag about tomorrow!
Each day brings
its own surprises.
2Don't brag about yourself—
let others praise you.
3Stones and sand are heavy,
but trouble caused by a fool
is a much heavier load.
4An angry person is dangerous,
but a jealous person
is even worse.
5A truly good friend
will openly correct you.
6You can trust a friend
who corrects you,
but kisses from an enemy
are nothing but lies.
7If you have had enough to eat,
honey doesn't taste good,
but if you are really hungry,
you will eat anything.
8When you are far from home,
you feel like a bird
without a nest.
9The sweet smell of incense
can make you feel good,
but true friendship
is better still.#27.9 still: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 9.
10Don't desert an old friend
of your family
or visit your relatives
when you are in trouble.
A friend nearby is better
than relatives far away.
11My child, show good sense!
Then I will be happy
and able to answer anyone
who criticizes me.
12Be cautious and hide
when you see danger—
don't be stupid and walk
right into trouble.
13You deserve to lose your coat
if you loan it to someone
to guarantee payment
for the debt of a stranger.
14A loud greeting
early in the morning
is the same as a curse.
15The steady dripping of rain
and the nagging of a wife
are one and the same.
16It's easier to catch the wind
or hold olive oil in your hand
than to stop a nagging wife.
17Just as iron sharpens iron,
friends sharpen the minds
of each other.
18Take care of a tree,
and you will eat its fruit;
look after your master,
and you will be praised.
19You see your face in a mirror
and your thoughts
in the minds of others.
20Death and the grave
are never satisfied,
and neither are humans.
21Gold and silver are tested
in a red-hot furnace,
but we are tested by praise.
22No matter how hard
you beat a fool,
you can't pound out
the foolishness.
23You should take good care
of your sheep and goats,
24because wealth and honor
don't last forever.
25After the hay is cut
and the new growth appears
and the harvest is over,
26you can sell lambs and goats
to buy clothes and land.
27From the milk of the goats,
you can make enough cheese
to feed your family
and all your servants.
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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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