Proverbs 27
1 Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.
不要為明日自誇，因為你不知今天能發生什麼。
2 Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.
只應讓人讚美你，你不應開口自誇；讚你的該是他人，不該是你的唇舌。
3 A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.
石頭重，沙礫沉，愚人的忿怒，比二者都重。
4 Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
憤怒固然殘酷，暴怒更是猛烈；可是面對妒恨，有誰能夠抵受﹖
5 Better is open protest than love kept secret.
公開的責斥，勝於暗中的溺愛。
6 The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.
友人的抨擊是忠誠，仇人的擁吻是欺騙。
7 The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.
人若吃飽了，蜂蜜也厭惡；若肚子饑餓，苦物也甘甜。
8 Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.
離家飄泊的遊子，有如無巢可歸的雀鳥。
9 Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
香油和香料，能暢快人心；朋友的勸勉，能撫慰人靈。
10 Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.
你的知心朋友，你父親的至交，你切不可離棄；在你憂患的時日，不要進兄弟的家。靠近的鄰舍，勝於遠地的兄弟。
11 My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.
我兒，作個智慧人，使我心高興，好叫我回答笑罵我的人。
12 The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.
精明人遇見災禍，即行隱避；無知者反向前走，自招損害。
13 Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
誰為外方人作保，拿出他的衣服；誰為異族人作保，以他本人作質。
14 He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.
清晨向人高聲祝福，就等於向他人咀咒。
15 Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.
豪雨的時日，滴漏不已：好吵的女人，也是如此；
16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
誰願意攔阻她，無異攔阻狂風，又好似右手抓油。
17 Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.
朋友互相砥礪，有如以鐵銼鐵。
18 Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.
看守無花果樹的，必食其果；護守自己主人的，必受器重。
19 Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.
人心不同，猶如其面。
陰府和冥域，總填不滿；世人的眼睛，從不滿足。 (Sheol h7585)
21 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.
鍋煉銀，爐煉金，諂媚煉人心。
22 Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.
你盡可在臼中將愚人舂碎，但他的昏愚卻永不能剷除。
23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
對你羊群的情況，應加注意；對你的家畜，應常留心照料；
24 For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
因為錢財並不能永存，寶藏也不能永留萬代。
25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.
割去了乾草，青草又叢生；山間的野草，也收集起來；
26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
那時羔羊供你衣料，山羊供你地價，
27 There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
羊奶足以養你，維持你的家庭，養活你的婢女。
