| Prov. 27:1 |
Do not boast about tomorrow, / For you do not know what a day may bring forth. |
| Prov. 27:2 |
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; / A foreigner, and not your own lips. |
| Prov. 27:3 |
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, / But a fool's vexation is heavier than both of them. |
| Prov. 27:4 |
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming, / But who can stand before jealousy? |
| Prov. 27:5 |
Open rebuke is better / Than love that is hidden. |
| Prov. 27:6 |
Faithful are the wounds of a friend, / But the kisses of an enemy are profuse. |
| Prov. 27:7 |
The full soul loathes a honeycomb, / But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. |
| Prov. 27:8 |
Like a bird that wanders from her nest, / So is a man who wanders from his place. |
| Prov. 27:9 |
Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; / So a man's counsel is sweet to his friend. |
| Prov. 27:10 |
Do not forsake your own friend or your father's friend / To go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity: / Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away. |
| Prov. 27:11 |
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, / That I may answer him who reproaches me. |
| Prov. 27:12 |
A prudent man sees evil [and] hides himself; / [But] the simple pass on [and] suffer punishment [for it.] |
| Prov. 27:13 |
Take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger, / And hold one in pledge [who is surety] for a foreign woman. |
| Prov. 27:14 |
He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, / Arousing [him] early in the morning, / It will be reckoned as a curse to him. |
| Prov. 27:15 |
A continual dripping on a very rainy day / And a contentious woman are alike; |
| Prov. 27:16 |
He who would restrain her restrains the wind, / And grasps oil with his right hand. |
| Prov. 27:17 |
Iron sharpens iron; / So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. |
| Prov. 27:18 |
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, / And he who takes care of his master will be honored. |
| Prov. 27:19 |
As in water face [reflects] face, / So the heart of man [reflects] man. |
| Prov. 27:20 |
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, / And the eyes of man are never satisfied. |
| Prov. 27:21 |
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, / And a man [is tried] by the praise [given] him. |
| Prov. 27:22 |
Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, / His folly will not depart from him. |
| Prov. 27:23 |
Know well the condition of your flocks, / [And] pay attention to your herds-- |
| Prov. 27:24 |
For riches are not forever, / Nor does a crown [endure] from generation to generation-- |
| Prov. 27:25 |
[Then] when the grass has disappeared, and the tender grass is seen, / And the herbs of the mountains have been gathered in, |
| Prov. 27:26 |
The lambs will be for your clothing, / And the goats [will bring] the price of a field; |
| Prov. 27:27 |
And there will be goats' milk enough for your food, / For the food of your household, / And [for] the sustenance for your maidens. |