Proverbs 27
1 Don't boast about what you're going to do tomorrow, because you don't know what the day may bring.
Boast not thy selfe of to morowe: for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
2 Let others praise you, not you yourself; someone else, not you personally.
Let another man prayse thee, and not thine owne mouth: a stranger, and not thine owne lips.
3 Stone may be heavy, and sand may weigh a lot, but the annoyance caused by stupid people is the biggest burden of all.
A stone is heauie, and the sand weightie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.
4 Fury may be fierce and cruel, anger may be a destructive flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
Anger is cruell, and wrath is raging: but who can stand before enuie?
5 Open criticism is better than hidden love.
Open rebuke is better then secret loue.
6 A friend's honest comments may hurt you, but an enemy's kisses are over the top.
The wounds of a louer are faithful, and the kisses of an enemie are pleasant.
7 If you're full up, you can't face honey; but if you're starving, even bitter food tastes sweet.
The person that is full, despiseth an hony combe: but vnto the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.
8 Having to leave home is like a bird having to leave its nest.
As a bird that wandreth from her nest, so is a man that wandreth from his owne place.
9 Perfume and scented oils make you feel happy, but good advice from a friend is even better.
As oyntment and perfume reioyce the heart, so doeth the sweetenes of a mans friend by hearty counsell.
10 Don't give up on your friends or your family's friends. Don't go to a relative's house when you've got trouble. A friend nearby is more useful than a relative far away.
Thine owne friend and thy fathers friend forsake thou not: neither enter into thy brothers house in the day of thy calamitie: for better is a neighbour that is neere, then a brother farre off.
11 My son, make me happy by being wise, so I can respond to anyone who criticizes me.
My sonne, be wise, and reioyce mine heart, that I may answere him that reprocheth me.
12 If you're sensible you see danger coming and get out of the way; but stupid people just keep going and suffer the consequences.
A prudent man seeth the plague, and hideth himselfe: but the foolish goe on still, and are punished.
13 If someone guarantees a stranger's debt with their cloak, be sure to take it! Make sure you have whatever is pledged to an immoral woman!
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.
14 If when you get up every morning you shout a loud hello to your neighbors, they will see that as a curse!
He that prayseth his friend with a loude voyce, rising earely in the morning, it shall be counted to him as a curse.
15 An argumentative wife is as irritating as constant dripping on a rainy day.
A continual dropping in the day of raine, and a contentious woman are alike.
16 Trying to stop her is like trying to make the wind stop or trying to hold olive oil in your hand.
He that hideth her, hideth the winde, and she is as ye oyle in his right hand, that vttereth it selfe.
17 An iron blade is sharpened with an iron tool, and one person's mind is sharpened by another's.
Yron sharpeneth yron, so doeth man sharpen the face of his friend.
18 Those who care for a fig tree eat its fruit, and those who care for their master are rewarded.
He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eate the fruite thereof: so he that waiteth vpon his master, shall come to honour.
19 Just as water reflects your face, your mind reflects who you really are.
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
20 In the same way that the grave and destruction are never satisfied, human desire is never satisfied. (Sheol h7585)
The graue and destruction can neuer be full, so the eyes of man can neuer be satisfied. (Sheol h7585)
21 Just as a crucible tests silver, and a furnace tests gold, people are tested by the praise they receive.
As is the fining pot for siluer and the fornace for golde, so is euery man according to his dignitie.
22 Even if you ground stupid people in a mortar, crushing them like grain with the pestle, you can't get rid of stupidity from them.
Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate brayed with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnes depart from him.
23 You should know the condition of your flocks really well and take good care of your herds,
Be diligent to know ye state of thy flocke, and take heede to the heardes.
24 for wealth doesn't last forever—is a crown passed down through all generations?
For riches remaine not alway, nor the crowne from generation to generation.
25 Once the hay is cut, and the new growth begins, and fodder from the mountains is gathered,
The hey discouereth it selfe, and the grasse appeareth, and the herbes of the mountaines are gathered.
26 and the lambs have provided you wool to make clothing, and the sale of goats have paid for a field,
The lambes are for thy clothing, and the goates are the price of the fielde.
27 there'll be enough milk from your goats to feed you, your family, and your servant girls.
And let the milke of the goates be sufficient for thy foode, for the foode of thy familie, and for the sustenance of thy maydes.
