Proverbs 27
1 Do not boast about [what you will do] tomorrow, because you do not know what will happen [PRS] on any day.
not to boast: boast in/on/with day tomorrow for not to know what? to beget day
2 Do not praise yourself [MTY, PRS]; allow others to praise you. If someone else praises you, that is okay.
to boast: praise you be a stranger and not lip your foreign and not lips your
3 [It causes pain to our bodies to carry heavy] stones or [a pail full of] sand, but doing something stupid/foolish [can cause] great [pain to other people’s spirits.]
heaviness stone and weight [the] sand and vexation fool(ish) heavy from two their
4 It is cruel to be angry [with others], and our being angry sometimes destroys [others], but being jealous of someone is [RHQ] often more cruel than that.
cruel rage and flood face: anger and who? to stand: stand to/for face: before jealousy
5 It is better to correct someone openly than to show that you l don’t love that person [by not correcting him].
pleasant argument to reveal: uncover from love to hide
6 If a friend criticizes you, [he is a good friend and] you can trust him; but if one of your enemies kisses you, he is [probably wanting to] deceive you.
be faithful wound to love: friend and be abundant kiss to hate
7 When someone’s stomach is full, he does not want to eat honey; but when someone is [very] hungry, he thinks that [even] bitter things taste sweet.
soul: person sated to trample honey and soul: person hungry all bitter sweet
8 Anyone who wanders [far] from his home/family is like [SIM] a bird that is far from its nest.
like/as bird to wander from nest her so man to wander from place his
9 [Putting olive] oil and perfume on a person’s skin causes him to feel good, but having a friend [who gives] good advice [is even better].
oil and incense to rejoice heart and sweetness neighbor his from counsel soul: myself
10 Do not neglect your friends or your parents’ friends; and at a time when you are experiencing a disaster, do not go to a relative [who lives far away to request his help]; someone who lives near you can help you more than relatives who live far away.
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 child/son, cause me to be happy by becoming wise, in order that I will [know how to] reply to those who would criticize me [about your behavior].
be wise son: child my and to rejoice heart my and to return: reply to taunt me word
12 Those who have good sense will realize that there is something dangerous ahead, and they will hide; those who do not have good sense [just] keep going, and later they will suffer because of [doing] that.
prudent to see: see distress: harm to hide simple to pass to fine
13 [You deserve to] have your property taken from you if you [foolishly] promise to a stranger (OR, a strange woman) that you will pay what she owes if she is unable to pay it [DOU].
to take: take garment his for to pledge be a stranger and about/through/for foreign to pledge him
14 If you rise early in the morning and call out a greeting to your neighbor [while he is still sleeping], he will consider it to be a curse, [not a blessing].
to bless neighbor his in/on/with voice great: large in/on/with morning to rise curse to devise: count to/for him
15 [Having] a wife that is [constantly] nagging is as [bad as listening] to rain continually dripping on a rainy day.
dripping to pursue in/on/with day rain and woman: wife (contention *Q(K)*) be like
16 [Trying] to restrain/stop her [from doing that] is as [difficult] [SIM] [as trying] to stop the wind or [trying] to hold oil in your hand.
to treasure her to treasure spirit: breath and oil right his to encounter: toward
17 [We can use one] iron tool to sharpen [another] iron [tool]; similarly [SIM], [when one person shares] what he is thinking, it can help other people [to think more clearly].
iron in/on/with iron to sharpen and man: anyone to sharpen face neighbor his
18 Those who take care of fig trees will have figs to eat; [similarly], servants who protect their master will be honored [by him].
to watch fig to eat fruit her and to keep: guard lord his to honor: honour
19 [When a person looks] in the water, he sees his own face; similarly [SIM], [when we look at] a person’s behavior, we know what he is thinking.
like/as water [the] face to/for face so heart [the] man to/for man
20 [It is as though] the place where the dead people are is always wanting more people to [die and] come there; and humans [SYN] are always wanting to acquire more things, [too]. (Sheol h7585)
hell: Sheol (and destruction his *Q(K)*) not to satisfy and eye [the] man not to satisfy (Sheol h7585)
21 [Workers put] silver and gold in a very hot furnace [to burn out what is impure], and [SIM] people learn [what we are really like when they see how we react when people] praise us.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and man to/for lip praise his
22 Even if you beat/crush a fool severely [like] [MET] you pulverize grain with a pestle, you [probably] will not be able to cause him to stop (being foolish/doing foolish things).
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 Take good care of your flocks of sheep and herds of cattle,
to know to know face flock your to set: put heart your to/for flock
24 because the money [that you acquired from selling animals previously] will not (last/stay with you) forever; similarly [SIM], governments [MTY] certainly do not [RHQ] last forever.
for not to/for forever: enduring wealth and if: surely yes consecration: crown to/for generation (and generation *Q(K)*)
25 After you cut the hay [DOU] and [store it to feed the animals in the winter while] a new crop of hay is growing,
to reveal: remove grass and to see: see grass and to gather vegetation mountain: mount
26 you will be able to [shear the sheep and] make clothes from the wool, and you will get money from selling [some of] the goats to buy [more] land,
lamb to/for clothing your and price land: country goat
27 and you will get enough milk from the [other] goats for you and your family and your female servants.
and sufficiency milk goat to/for food your to/for food house: household your and life to/for maiden your
