Proverbs 27
1 Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day 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 man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine 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 the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath [is] heavier than them both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?
5 Better is open protest than love kept secret.
Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.
6 The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.
Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.
7 The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is 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 wandereth from his place.
9 Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
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.
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: [for] better [is] a neighbour [that is] near than a brother far 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.
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
12 The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.
A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished.
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 his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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 friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
15 Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.
A continual dropping in a very rainy 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.
Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].
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.
Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
19 Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.
As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man 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] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise.
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 shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.
23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
24 For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?
25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.
The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.
27 There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
And [thou shalt have] goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.
