Proverbs 27
27
1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what the future day may bring.
2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth: an outsider, and not your own lips.
3 A stone is weighty, and sand is burdensome; but the wrath of the foolish is heavier than both.
4 Anger holds no mercy, nor does fury when it erupts. And who can bear the assault of one who has been provoked?
5 An open rebuke is better than hidden love.
6 The wounds of a loved one are better than the deceitful kisses of a hateful one.
7 A sated soul will trample the honeycomb. And a hungry soul will accept even bitter in place of sweet.
8 Just like a bird migrating from her nest, so also is a man who abandons his place.
9 Ointment and various perfumes delight the heart. And the good advice of a friend is sweet to the soul.
10 Do not dismiss your friend or your father's friend. And do not enter your brother's house in the day of your affliction. A close neighbor is better than a distant brother.
11 My son, study wisdom, and rejoice my heart, so that you may be able to respond to the one who reproaches.
12 The discerning man, seeing evil, hides himself. The little ones, continuing on, sustain losses.
13 Take away the garment of him who has vouched for an outsider. And take a pledge from him on behalf of foreigners.
14 Whoever blesses his neighbor with a grand voice, rising in the night, shall be like one who curses.
15 A roof leaking on a cold day, and an argumentative woman, are comparable.
16 He who would restrain her, he is like one who would grasp the wind, or who would gather together oil with his right hand.
17 Iron sharpens iron, and a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
18 Whoever maintains the fig tree shall eat its fruit. And whoever is the keeper of his master shall be glorified.
19 In the manner of faces looking into shining water, so are the hearts of men made manifest to the prudent.
20 Hell and perdition are never filled; similarly the eyes of men are insatiable.
21 In the manner of silver being tested in the refinery, and gold in the furnace, so also is a man tested by the mouth of one who praises. The heart of the iniquitous inquires after evils, but the heart of the righteous inquires after knowledge.
22 Even if you were to crush the foolish with a mortar, as when a pestle strikes over pearled barley, his foolishness would not be taken from him.
23 Be diligent to know the countenance of your cattle, and consider your own flocks,
24 for you will not always hold this power. But a crown shall be awarded from generation to generation.
25 The meadows are open, and the green plants have appeared, and the hay has been collected from the mountains.
26 Lambs are for your clothing, and goats are for the price of a field.
27 Let the milk of goats be sufficient for your food, and for the necessities of your household, and for the provisions of your handmaids.
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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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