Proverbs 27
1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Boast not for tomorrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.
2 Let someone else praise you and not your own mouth; a stranger and not your own lips.
Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.
3 Consider the heaviness of a stone and the weight of sand— the provocation of a fool is heavier than both.
A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.
4 There is the cruelty of rage and the flood of anger, but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?
5 Better is an open rebuke than hidden love.
Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
6 Faithful are the wounds caused by a friend, but an enemy may kiss you profusely.
Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy.
7 A person who has eaten to the full rejects even a honeycomb, but to the hungry person, every bitter thing is sweet.
A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet.
8 Like a bird that wanders from its nest is a man who strays from where he lives.
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.
9 Perfume and incense make the heart rejoice, but the sweetness of a friend comes from his sincere counsel.
Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.
10 Do not forsake your friend and your friend's father, and do not go to your brother's house on the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is nearby than a brother who is far away.
Thy own friend, and thy father’s friend forsake not: and go not into thy brother’s house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a neighbour that is near, than a brother afar off.
11 Be wise, my son, and make my heart rejoice; then I will give back an answer to the one who mocks me.
Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.
12 A prudent man sees trouble and hides himself, but the naive people go on and suffer because of it.
The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.
13 Take a garment of one who has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an immoral woman.
Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.
14 Whoever gives his neighbor a blessing with a loud voice early in the morning, that blessing will be considered to be a curse!
He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth.
15 A quarreling wife is like the constant dripping on a rainy day;
Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.
16 restraining her is like restraining the wind, or trying to catch oil in your right hand.
He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call in the oil of his right hand.
17 Iron sharpens iron; in the same way, a man sharpens his friend.
Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
18 The one who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and the one who protects his master will be honored.
He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eat the fruit thereof: and he that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified.
19 Just as water reflects a person's face, so a person's heart reflects the person.
As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so-the hearts of men are laid open to the wise.
20 Just as Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, so a man's eyes are never satisfied. (Sheol h7585)
Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied. (Sheol h7585)
21 A crucible is for silver and a furnace is for gold; and a person is tested when he is praised.
As silver is tried in the fining-pot and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after knowledge.
22 Even if you crush a fool with the pestle—along with the grain— yet his foolishness will not leave him.
Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.
23 Be sure you know the condition of your flocks and be concerned about your herds,
Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks:
24 for wealth is not forever. Does a crown endure for all generations?
For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.
25 You should know when the hay is gone and the new growth appears, and the time when the grass from the hills is gathered in.
The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered out of the mountains.
26 Those lambs will provide your clothing and the goats will provide the price of the field.
Lambs are for thy clothing: and kids for the price of the field.
27 There will be goats' milk for your food—the food for your household— and nourishment for your servant girls.
Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the necessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids.
