Proverbs 27
1 not to boast: boast in/on/with day tomorrow for not to know what? to beget day
Make no boast for thyself of the coming day; 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 thy own mouth; a stranger, and not thy own lips.
3 heaviness stone and weight [the] sand and vexation fool(ish) heavy from two their
A stone hath heaviness, and the sand, weight; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both of them.
4 cruel rage and flood face: anger and who? to stand: stand to/for face: before jealousy
Fury hath its cruelty, and anger its overwhelming power; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 pleasant argument to reveal: uncover from love to hide
Better is open reproof than concealed love.
6 be faithful wound to love: friend and be abundant kiss to hate
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but deceptive are the kisses of an enemy.
7 soul: person sated to trample honey and soul: person hungry all bitter sweet
The satisfied soul treadeth under foot fine honey; 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 away from her nest, so is a man that wandereth away from his place.
9 oil and incense to rejoice heart and sweetness neighbor his from counsel soul: myself
Oil and perfume cause the heart to rejoice, and so do the sweet words of a friend more than one's own 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
Thy own friend, and thy father's friend, thou must not forsake; but into thy brother's house enter not on the day of thy calamity: better is a near neighbor than a distant brother.
11 be wise son: child my and to rejoice heart my and to return: reply to taunt me word
Become wise, my son, and cause my heart to rejoice, that I may give an answer to him that reproacheth me.
12 prudent to see: see distress: harm to hide simple to pass to fine
The prudent foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
13 to take: take garment his for to pledge be a stranger and about/through/for foreign to pledge him
Take his garment, for he became surety for a stranger; and on account of an alien woman take a pledge of him.
14 to bless neighbor his in/on/with voice great: large in/on/with morning to rise curse to devise: count to/for him
When one saluteth his friend with a loud voice, when rising early in the morning, it will 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 on 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 conceal her might conceal the wind, and as [fragrant] oil on his right hand, which would betray itself.
17 iron in/on/with iron to sharpen and man: anyone to sharpen face neighbor his
Iron is sharpened by iron: so doth a man sharpen himself on the countenance of his friend.
18 to watch fig to eat fruit her and to keep: guard lord his to honor: honour
Whoso guardeth the fig-tree will eat its fruit: so he that watcheth over his master will be honored.
19 like/as water [the] face to/for face so heart [the] man to/for man
As the water [showeth] to the face the [reflected] face: so doth the heart of man show itself to man.
20 hell: Sheol (and destruction his *Q(K)*) not to satisfy and eye [the] man not to satisfy (Sheol h7585)
The nether world and the place of corruption are never satisfied: so are the eyes of man never satisfied. (Sheol h7585)
21 crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and man to/for lip praise his
[As] the fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: so is a man [proved] according to 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 shouldst pound the fool in a mortar, in the midst of grains of wheat with a pestle: still would his folly not depart from him.
23 to know to know face flock your to set: put heart your to/for flock
Endeavor to know well the appearance of thy flocks, direct thy attention 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 property endureth not for ever, nor doth the crown remain for all generations.
25 to reveal: remove grass and to see: see grass and to gather vegetation mountain: mount
When the grass is past, young verdure showeth itself, and then are gathered the herbs of the mountains.
26 lamb to/for clothing your and price land: country goat
The sheep are for thy clothing, and he-goats are the purchase-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
And thou wilt have enough of goats' milk for thy food, for the food of thy household, and the support for thy maidens.
