Proverbs 27
27
1Don’t boast about tomorrow,
for you don’t know what a day might bring. # Lk 12:19-20; Jms 4:13-14
2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth —
a stranger, and not your own lips. # Pr 25:27; 2Co 10:12,18; 12:11
3A stone is heavy and sand, a burden,
but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.
4Fury is cruel, and anger a flood,
but who can withstand jealousy? # Pr 6:34
5Better an open reprimand
than concealed love. # Pr 28:23
6The wounds of a friend are trustworthy, # Ps 141:5
but the kisses of an enemy are excessive. # Lk 22:48
7A person who is full tramples on a honeycomb, # Pr 25:16
but to a hungry person, any bitter thing is sweet.
8A man wandering from his home
is like a bird wandering from its nest. # Pr 26:2
9Oil # Ps 23:5 and incense bring joy to the heart,
and the sweetness of a friend is better than self-counsel. # LXX reads heart, but the soul is torn up by affliction
10Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend, # 2Sm 10:2
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away. # Pr 17:17
11Be wise, my son, and bring my heart joy, # Pr 10:1; 23:24-25; 29:3
so that I can answer anyone who taunts me. # Ps 119:42; 127:5
12A sensible person sees danger and takes cover;
the inexperienced keep going and are punished. # Pr 22:3
13Take his garment, # A debtor’s outer garment held as collateral; Dt 24:12-13,17; Jb 22:6; Am 2:8
for he has put up security for a stranger;
get collateral if it is for foreigners. # Lit a foreign woman # Pr 6:1-5; 11:15; 20:16
14If one blesses his neighbor
with a loud voice early in the morning,
it will be counted as a curse to him.
15An endless dripping on a rainy day
and a nagging wife are alike. # Pr 19:13
16The one who controls her controls the wind
and grasps oil with his right hand.
17Iron sharpens iron,
and one man sharpens another. # Lit and a man sharpens his friend’s face
18Whoever tends a fig tree # Am 7:14 will eat its fruit, # Sg 8:12; 1Co 3:8; 9:7; 2Tm 2:6
and whoever looks after his master will be honored.
19As water reflects the face,
so the heart reflects the person.
20Sheol and Abaddon # Jb 26:6; Pr 15:11 are never satisfied, # Pr 30:15-16; Hab 2:5
and people’s eyes are never satisfied. # Ec 1:8; 4:8
21A crucible for silver, and a smelter for gold,
and a man for the words of his praise. # Or gold, but a man is tested by his praise # Pr 16:2; 17:3
22Though you grind a fool
in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
you will not separate his foolishness from him. # Pr 23:35; 26:11; Jr 5:3
23Know well the condition of your flock, # Ezk 34:12; Jn 10:3,14; Ac 20:28
and pay attention to your herds,
24for wealth is not forever; # Lk 16:9
not even a crown lasts for all time.
25When hay is removed and new growth appears
and the grain from the hills is gathered in,
26lambs will provide your clothing,
and goats, the price of a field;
27there will be enough goat’s milk for your food —
food for your household
and nourishment for your female servants. # Pr 31:15
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Proverbs 27
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Proverbs 27
1¶ Boast not thyself of tomorrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
2¶ Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
3¶ A stone is heavy and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
4Wrath is cruel, and anger is impetuous, but who is able to stand before envy?
5¶ Open rebuke is better than secret love.
6Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
7¶ The full soul loathes a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
8¶ As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man that wanders from his place.
9¶ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, so does the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
10Do not forsake thine own friend and thy father’s friend, neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity, for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
11¶ My son, be wise and make my heart glad that I may answer him that reproaches me.
12¶ A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are hurt by it.
13¶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger and take a pledge of him that is surety for a strange woman.
14¶ He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
15¶ A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
16Whosoever hides her hides the wind, because the oil in his right hand cries out.
17¶ Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
18¶ Whosoever keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof, so he that waits on his master shall be honoured.
19¶ As in water face corresponds to face, so the heart of man to man.
20¶ Sheol and hell are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21¶ As the fining pot tries the silver and the furnace the gold; so the man is tried by the mouth of whoever praises him.
22¶ Though thou should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
23¶ Be thou diligent to know the countenance of thy sheep, and put thy heart into thy herds.
24For riches are not for ever, and does the crown endure to every generation?
25The tender grass shows itself, and the hay appears, and the herbs of the mountains are reaped.
26The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are for 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 of thy maidens.
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