Proverbs 27
1 Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.
Boast not for tomorrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.
2 Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.
Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.
3 A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.
A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?
5 Better is open protest than love kept secret.
Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
6 The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.
Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy.
7 The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.
A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet.
8 Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.
9 Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.
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.
Thy own friend, and thy father’s friend forsake not: and go not into thy brother’s house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a neighbour that is near, than a brother afar off.
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.
Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.
12 The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.
The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.
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.
Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.
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.
He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth.
15 Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.
Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.
16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call in the oil of his right hand.
17 Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.
Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
18 Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.
He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eat the fruit thereof: and he that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified.
19 Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.
As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so-the hearts of men are laid open to the wise.
Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied. (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.
As silver is tried in the fining-pot and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after knowledge.
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.
Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.
23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks:
24 For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.
25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.
The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered out of the mountains.
26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
Lambs are for thy clothing: and kids for the price of the field.
27 There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the necessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids.
