Proverbs 27
1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
not to boast: boast in/on/with day tomorrow for not to know what? to beget day
2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
to boast: praise you be a stranger and not lip your foreign and not lips your
3 A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath [is] heavier than them both.
heaviness stone and weight [the] sand and vexation fool(ish) heavy from two their
4 Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?
cruel rage and flood face: anger and who? to stand: stand to/for face: before jealousy
5 Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.
pleasant argument to reveal: uncover from love to hide
6 Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.
be faithful wound to love: friend and be abundant kiss to hate
7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
soul: person sated to trample honey and soul: person hungry all bitter sweet
8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place.
like/as bird to wander from nest her so man to wander from place his
9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
oil and incense to rejoice heart and sweetness neighbor his from counsel soul: myself
10 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.
neighbor your (and neighbor *Q(K)*) father your not to leave: forsake and house: home brother: male-sibling your not to come (in): come in/on/with day calamity your pleasant neighboring near from brother: male-sibling distant
11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
be wise son: child my and to rejoice heart my and to return: reply to taunt me word
12 A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished.
prudent to see: see distress: harm to hide simple to pass to fine
13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
to take: take garment his for to pledge be a stranger and about/through/for foreign to pledge him
14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
to bless neighbor his in/on/with voice great: large in/on/with morning to rise curse to devise: count to/for him
15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
dripping to pursue in/on/with day rain and woman: wife (contention *Q(K)*) be like
16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].
to treasure her to treasure spirit: breath and oil right his to encounter: toward
17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
iron in/on/with iron to sharpen and man: anyone to sharpen face neighbor his
18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
to watch fig to eat fruit her and to keep: guard lord his to honor: honour
19 As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.
like/as water [the] face to/for face so heart [the] man to/for man
hell: Sheol (and destruction his *Q(K)*) not to satisfy and eye [the] man not to satisfy (Sheol h7585)
21 [As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and man to/for lip praise his
22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.
if to pound [obj] [the] fool(ish) in/on/with hollow in/on/with midst [the] grain in/on/with pestle not to turn aside: depart from upon him folly his
23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
to know to know face flock your to set: put heart your to/for flock
24 For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?
for not to/for forever: enduring wealth and if: surely yes consecration: crown to/for generation (and generation *Q(K)*)
25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
to reveal: remove grass and to see: see grass and to gather vegetation mountain: mount
26 The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.
lamb to/for clothing your and price land: country goat
27 And [thou shalt have] goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.
and sufficiency milk goat to/for food your to/for food house: household your and life to/for maiden your
