Proverbs 27:2,17,20 - Compare All Versions

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Don’t call attention to yourself; let others do that for you.

You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another.

Hell has a voracious appetite, and lust just never quits.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.

Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Hell and destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.

Iron sharpens iron, So one man sharpens another.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.

Don’t praise yourself. Let someone else do it. Let the praise come from a stranger and not from your own mouth.

As iron sharpens iron, so people can improve each other.

People will never stop dying and being destroyed, and they will never stop wanting more than they have.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.

Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips.

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are human eyes.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.

As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

Hell and Destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.

As iron sharpens iron, So one man sharpens [and influences] another [through discussion].

Sheol (the place of the dead) and Abaddon (the underworld) are never satisfied; Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied. [Prov 30:16; Hab 2:5]

Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth— a stranger, not your own lips.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Just as Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so human desire is never satisfied.

Let someone else honor you for your accomplishments, for self-praise is never appropriate.

It takes a grinding wheel to sharpen a blade, and so one person sharpens the character of another.

Death and destruction are never filled, and the desires of men’s hearts are insatiable.

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.