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 sand is weighty; But a fool's wrath is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
Wrath is cruel, and anger overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open protest than love kept secret.
Better is open rebuke Than love kept concealed.
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.
He who is fed to the full loatheth the honeycomb; But to the hungry any 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 its nest, So is a man who wandereth from his place.
9 Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
Oil and perfume gladden the heart; Sweet also is one'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; And go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity. Better is a neighbor 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.
Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, That I may give an answer to 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; 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 who is surety for another; Yea, take a pledge of him who is bound for a stranger.
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 who blesseth his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early for it, It shall be accounted to him as a curse.
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 quarrelsome wife are alike.
16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
He who restraineth her restraineth the wind; And his right hand layeth hold of oil.
17 Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.
Iron sharpeneth iron; So one man sharpeneth the face of another.
18 Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.
He that watcheth the fig-tree shall eat its fruit; So he that is careful for his master shall come to honor.
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 doth the heart of man to man.
The realms of the dead 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.
The refining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; So let a man be to the mouth that giveth him 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 shouldst beat a fool in a mortar, Among bruised wheat, with a pestle, Yet will not his folly 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 last not for ever; Not even a crown endureth from generation to generation.
25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.
The hay disappeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself, And the herbage of the mountains is gathered in.
26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
The lambs are thy clothing, And the goats the price of thy field.
27 There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
There is goat's milk enough for thy food, For the food of thy household, And for the sustenance of thy maidens.
