Proverbs 27
27
You Don’t Know Tomorrow
1Don’t brashly announce what you’re going to do tomorrow;
you don’t know the first thing about tomorrow.
2Don’t call attention to yourself;
let others do that for you.
3Carrying a log across your shoulders
while you’re hefting a boulder with your arms
Is nothing compared to the burden
of putting up with a fool.
4We’re blasted by anger and swamped by rage,
but who can survive jealousy?
5A spoken reprimand is better
than approval that’s never expressed.
6The wounds from a lover are worth it;
kisses from an enemy do you in.
7When you’ve stuffed yourself, you refuse dessert;
when you’re starved, you could eat a horse.
8People who won’t settle down, wandering hither and yon,
are like restless birds, flitting to and fro.
9Just as lotions and fragrance give sensual delight,
a sweet friendship refreshes the soul.
10Don’t leave your friends or your parents’ friends
and run home to your family when things get rough;
Better a nearby friend
than a distant family.
11Become wise, dear child, and make me happy;
then nothing the world throws my way will upset me.
12A prudent person sees trouble coming and ducks;
a simpleton walks in blindly and is clobbered.
13Hold tight to collateral on any loan to a stranger;
be wary of accepting what a transient has pawned.
14If you wake your friend in the early morning
by shouting “Rise and shine!”
It will sound to him
more like a curse than a blessing.
15-16A nagging spouse is like
the drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet;
You can’t turn it off,
and you can’t get away from it.
Your Face Mirrors Your Heart
17You use steel to sharpen steel,
and one friend sharpens another.
18If you care for your orchard, you’ll enjoy its fruit;
if you honor your boss, you’ll be honored.
19Just as water mirrors your face,
so your face mirrors your heart.
20Hell has a voracious appetite,
and lust just never quits.
21The purity of silver and gold is tested
by putting them in the fire;
The purity of human hearts is tested
by giving them a little fame.
22Pound on a fool all you like—
you can’t pound out foolishness.
23-27Know your sheep by name;
carefully attend to your flocks;
(Don’t take them for granted;
possessions don’t last forever, you know.)
And then, when the crops are in
and the harvest is stored in the barns,
You can knit sweaters from lambs’ wool,
and sell your goats for a profit;
There will be plenty of milk and meat
to last your family through the winter.
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Proverbs 27
27
1 Do not boast about tomorrow,#Literally “on the day of tomorrow”
for you do not know what the day will bring.
2May another praise you and not your own mouth,
a stranger and not your own lips.
3Heavy is a stone and weighty is sand,
but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
4Cruel is wrath and overwhelming is anger,
but who will stand before jealousy?
5Better a rebuke that is open
than a love that is hidden.
6The wounds of a friend mean well,
but the kisses of an enemy are profane.
7An appetite#Literally “soul” that is sated spurns honey,
but to an appetite#Literally “soul” that is ravenous, all bitterness is sweet.
8Like a bird that strays from its nest,
so is a man who strays from his place.
9Perfume and incense will gladden a heart,
and the pleasantness of one’s friend is personal advice.#Literally “because of advice of a person”
10As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake them,
and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity.
Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.
11Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad,
and I will answer him who reproaches me with a word.
12When the clever sees danger, he hides;
the simple go on and suffer.
13Take his garment, for he gives surety to a stranger,
and to an adulteress#Literally “a foreign woman”—so take his pledge.
14He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice
early in the morning,
a curse will be reckoned to him.
15Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain
and a woman#Or “wife” of contention are alike.
16In restraining her, he restrains wind,#Or “breath, or “spirit”
and his right hand will grasp oil#Or “fat”.
17As iron sharpens#Or “is united with” iron,
so one man sharpens another.#Literally “a man sharpens the faces of his friend”
18He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
and he who guards his master#Or “lord” will be honored.
19As the waters reflect face to face,#Literally “the faces to the faces”
so the heart of a person reflects the person.
20Sheol#A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld and Abaddon#Poetic synonym for “Sheol.” Only mentioned in the ot in relation to Sheol, the grave, or death. will not be satisfied,
and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied either.
21A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace for the gold,
but a man is tested by the mouth of him who praises him.
22If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle along with#Or “in the midst of” the crushed grain,
it will not drive folly from upon him.
23You will surely know the condition#Literally “faces” of your flock;
your heart#Or “mind” attends to the herds.
24For riches are not forever,
nor a crown for generation after generation.
25When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear,
and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered.
26Lambs will be your clothing,
and goats the price of the field.
27And there will be enough goats’ milk for your food,
for the food of your household and the nourishment#Literally “life” of your maidservants.
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