< Proverbs 27 >

1 Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou know not what a day may bring forth.
not to boast: boast in/on/with day tomorrow for not to know what? to beget day
2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.
to boast: praise you be a stranger and not lip your foreign and not lips your
3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, but a fool's vexation is heavier than both.
heaviness stone and weight [the] sand and vexation fool(ish) heavy from two their
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?
cruel rage and flood face: anger and who? to stand: stand to/for face: before jealousy
5 Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.
pleasant argument to reveal: uncover from love to hide
6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
be faithful wound to love: friend and be abundant kiss to hate
7 The full soul loathes a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
soul: person sated to trample honey and soul: person hungry all bitter sweet
8 As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.
like/as bird to wander from nest her so man to wander from place his
9 Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so too the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
oil and incense to rejoice heart and sweetness neighbor his from counsel soul: myself
10 Forsake not thine own friend, and thy father's friend. And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity. Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far off.
neighbor your (and neighbor *Q(K)*) father your not to leave: forsake and house: home brother: male-sibling your not to come (in): come in/on/with day calamity your pleasant neighboring near from brother: male-sibling distant
11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
be wise son: child my and to rejoice heart my and to return: reply to taunt me word
12 A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself. The simple pass on, and suffer for it.
prudent to see: see distress: harm to hide simple to pass to fine
13 Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge who is surety for a strange woman.
to take: take garment his for to pledge be a stranger and about/through/for foreign to pledge him
14 He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be considered a curse to him.
to bless neighbor his in/on/with voice great: large in/on/with morning to rise curse to devise: count to/for him
15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike.
dripping to pursue in/on/with day rain and woman: wife (contention *Q(K)*) be like
16 He who would restrain her restrains the wind, and his right hand encounters oil.
to treasure her to treasure spirit: breath and oil right his to encounter: toward
17 Iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
iron in/on/with iron to sharpen and man: anyone to sharpen face neighbor his
18 He who keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit of it, and he who regards his master shall be honored.
to watch fig to eat fruit her and to keep: guard lord his to honor: honour
19 As in water face is to face, so the heart of a man is to a man.
like/as water [the] face to/for face so heart [the] man to/for man
20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and the eyes of man are never satisfied. (Sheol h7585)
hell: Sheol (and destruction his *Q(K)*) not to satisfy and eye [the] man not to satisfy (Sheol h7585)
21 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tried by his praise.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and man to/for lip praise his
22 Though thou should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
if to pound [obj] [the] fool(ish) in/on/with hollow in/on/with midst [the] grain in/on/with pestle not to turn aside: depart from upon him folly his
23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
to know to know face flock your to set: put heart your to/for flock
24 For riches are not forever. And does the crown endure to all generations?
for not to/for forever: enduring wealth and if: surely yes consecration: crown to/for generation (and generation *Q(K)*)
25 The hay is carried, and the tender grass shows itself, and the herbs of the mountains are gathered in.
to reveal: remove grass and to see: see grass and to gather vegetation mountain: mount
26 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the cost of the field.
lamb to/for clothing your and price land: country goat
27 And then will be goats' milk enough for thy food; for the food of thy household, and maintenance for thy maidens.
and sufficiency milk goat to/for food your to/for food house: household your and life to/for maiden your

< Proverbs 27 >