Proverbs 27
1 not to boast: boast in/on/with day tomorrow for not to know what? to beget day
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
2 to boast: praise you be a stranger and not lip your foreign and not lips your
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth— a stranger, and not your own lips.
3 heaviness stone and weight [the] sand and vexation fool(ish) heavy from two their
A stone is heavy and sand is a burden, but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.
4 cruel rage and flood face: anger and who? to stand: stand to/for face: before jealousy
Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
5 pleasant argument to reveal: uncover from love to hide
Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.
6 be faithful wound to love: friend and be abundant kiss to hate
The wounds of a friend are faithful, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
7 soul: person sated to trample honey and soul: person hungry all bitter sweet
The soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet.
8 like/as bird to wander from nest her so man to wander from place his
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.
9 oil and incense to rejoice heart and sweetness neighbor his from counsel soul: myself
Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the sweetness of a friend is counsel to the soul.
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
Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
11 be wise son: child my and to rejoice heart my and to return: reply to taunt me word
Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I can answer him who taunts me.
12 prudent to see: see distress: harm to hide simple to pass to fine
The prudent see danger and take cover; but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
13 to take: take garment his for to pledge be a stranger and about/through/for foreign to pledge him
Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
14 to bless neighbor his in/on/with voice great: large in/on/with morning to rise curse to devise: count to/for him
If one blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted to him as a curse.
15 dripping to pursue in/on/with day rain and woman: wife (contention *Q(K)*) be like
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—
16 to treasure her to treasure spirit: breath and oil right his to encounter: toward
restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.
17 iron in/on/with iron to sharpen and man: anyone to sharpen face neighbor his
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
18 to watch fig to eat fruit her and to keep: guard lord his to honor: honour
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.
19 like/as water [the] face to/for face so heart [the] man to/for man
As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true 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; so 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
A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but a man is tested by the praise accorded him.
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 you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
23 to know to know face flock your to set: put heart your to/for flock
Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your 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 forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.
25 to reveal: remove grass and to see: see grass and to gather vegetation mountain: mount
When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grain from the hills is gathered,
26 lamb to/for clothing your and price land: country goat
the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.
27 and sufficiency milk goat to/for food your to/for food house: household your and life to/for maiden your
You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you— food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
