< Proverbs 27 >
1 Boast not of to-morrow; for you know not what the next day shall bring forth.
not to boast: boast in/on/with day tomorrow for not to know what? to beget day
2 Let your neighbor, and not your own mouth, praise you; a stranger, and not your own lips.
to boast: praise you be a stranger and not lip your foreign and not lips your
3 A stone is heavy, and sand cumbersome; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both.
heaviness stone and weight [the] sand and vexation fool(ish) heavy from two their
4 Wrath is merciless, and anger sharp: but envy can bear nothing.
cruel rage and flood face: anger and who? to stand: stand to/for face: before jealousy
5 Open reproofs are better than secret love.
pleasant argument to reveal: uncover from love to hide
6 The wounds of a friend are more to be trusted than the spontaneous kisses of an enemy.
be faithful wound to love: friend and be abundant kiss to hate
7 A full soul scorns honeycombs; but to a hungry soul even bitter things appear sweet.
soul: person sated to trample honey and soul: person hungry all bitter sweet
8 As when a bird flies down from its own nest, so a man is brought into bondage whenever he estranges himself from his own place.
like/as bird to wander from nest her so man to wander from place his
9 The heart delights in ointments and wines and perfumes: but the soul is broken by calamities.
oil and incense to rejoice heart and sweetness neighbor his from counsel soul: myself
10 Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; and when you are in distress go not into your brother's house: better is a friend [that is] near than a brother living 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 Son, be wise, that your heart may rejoice; and remove you from yourself reproachful words.
be wise son: child my and to rejoice heart my and to return: reply to taunt me word
12 A wise man, when evils are approaching, hides himself; but fools pass on, and will be punished.
prudent to see: see distress: harm to hide simple to pass to fine
13 Take away the man's garment, (for a scorner has passed by) whoever lays waste another's goods.
to take: take garment his for to pledge be a stranger and about/through/for foreign to pledge him
14 Whosoever shall bless a friend in the morning with a loud voice, shall seem to differ nothing from one who curses [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 On a stormy day drops [of rain] drive a man out of his house; so also does a railing woman [drive a man] out of his own house.
dripping to pursue in/on/with day rain and woman: wife (contention *Q(K)*) be like
16 The north wind is sharp, but it is called by name propitious.
to treasure her to treasure spirit: breath and oil right his to encounter: toward
17 Iron sharpens iron; and a man sharpens his friend's countenance.
iron in/on/with iron to sharpen and man: anyone to sharpen face neighbor his
18 He that plants a fig tree shall eat the fruits of it: so he that waits on his own master shall be honored.
to watch fig to eat fruit her and to keep: guard lord his to honor: honour
19 As faces are not like [other] faces, so neither are the thoughts of men.
like/as water [the] face to/for face so heart [the] man to/for man
20 Hell and destruction are not filled; so also are the eyes of men insatiable. [He that fixes his eye is an abomination to the Lord; and the uninstructed do not restrain their tongue.] (Sheol )
hell: Sheol (and destruction his *Q(K)*) not to satisfy and eye [the] man not to satisfy (Sheol )
21 Fire is the trial for silver and gold; and a man is tried by the mouth of them that praise him. The heart of the transgressor seeks after mischiefs; but an upright heart seeks knowledge.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and man to/for lip praise his
22 Though you scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, you will [still] in no wise remove his folly 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 Do you thoroughly know the number of your flock, and pay attention to your herds.
to know to know face flock your to set: put heart your to/for flock
24 For a man [has] not strength and power for ever; neither does he transmit it from generation to generation.
for not to/for forever: enduring wealth and if: surely yes consecration: crown to/for generation (and generation *Q(K)*)
25 Take care of the herbage in the field, and you shall cut grass, and gather the mountain hay;
to reveal: remove grass and to see: see grass and to gather vegetation mountain: mount
26 that you may have [wool of] sheep for clothing: pay attention to the land, that you may have lambs.
lamb to/for clothing your and price land: country goat
27 [My] son, you have from me words very useful for your life, and for the life of your servants.
and sufficiency milk goat to/for food your to/for food house: household your and life to/for maiden your