Proverbs 27
1 not to boast: boast in/on/with day tomorrow for not to know what? to beget day
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
2 to boast: praise you be a stranger and not lip your foreign and not lips your
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.
3 heaviness stone and weight [the] sand and vexation fool(ish) heavy from two their
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool’s vexation is heavier than they both.
4 cruel rage and flood face: anger and who? to stand: stand to/for face: before jealousy
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 pleasant argument to reveal: uncover from love to hide
Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.
6 be faithful wound to love: friend and be abundant kiss to hate
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; But the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
7 soul: person sated to trample honey and soul: person hungry all bitter sweet
The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
8 like/as bird to wander from nest her so man to wander from place his
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place.
9 oil and incense to rejoice heart and sweetness neighbor his from counsel soul: myself
Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; So doth the sweetness of a man’s friend [that cometh] of hearty counsel.
10 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
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
11 be wise son: child my and to rejoice heart my and to return: reply to taunt me word
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, That I may answer him that reproacheth me.
12 prudent to see: see distress: harm to hide simple to pass to fine
A prudent man seeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [But] the simple pass on, [and] suffer for it.
13 to take: take garment his for to pledge be a stranger and about/through/for foreign to pledge him
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge [that is surety] for a foreign woman.
14 to bless neighbor his in/on/with voice great: large in/on/with morning to rise curse to devise: count to/for him
He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, It shall be counted a curse to him.
15 dripping to pursue in/on/with day rain and woman: wife (contention *Q(K)*) be like
A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:
16 to treasure her to treasure spirit: breath and oil right his to encounter: toward
He that would restrain her restraineth the wind; And his right hand encountereth oil.
17 iron in/on/with iron to sharpen and man: anyone to sharpen face neighbor his
Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
18 to watch fig to eat fruit her and to keep: guard lord his to honor: honour
Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; And he that regardeth his master shall be honored.
19 like/as water [the] face to/for face so heart [the] man to/for man
As in water face [answereth] to face, So the heart of man to man.
20 hell: Sheol (and destruction his *Q(K)*) not to satisfy and eye [the] man not to satisfy (Sheol h7585)
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied. (Sheol h7585)
21 crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and man to/for lip praise his
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; And a man is [tried] by his praise.
22 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
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
23 to know to know face flock your to set: put heart your to/for flock
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [And] look well to thy herds:
24 for not to/for forever: enduring wealth and if: surely yes consecration: crown to/for generation (and generation *Q(K)*)
For riches are not for ever; And doth the crown endure unto all generations?
25 to reveal: remove grass and to see: see grass and to gather vegetation mountain: mount
The hay is carried, and the tender grass showeth itself, And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in.
26 lamb to/for clothing your and price land: country goat
The lambs are for thy clothing, And the goats are the price of the field;
27 and sufficiency milk goat to/for food your to/for food house: household your and life to/for maiden your
And [there will be] goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, And maintenance for thy maidens.
