Proverbs 27

1 Don’t brag about tomorrow; you don’t know what may happen then.

2 Don’t praise yourself. Let someone else do it. Let the praise come from a stranger and not from your own mouth.

3 Stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a complaining fool is worse than either.

4 Anger is cruel and destroys like a flood, but no one can put up with jealousy!

5 It is better to correct someone openly than to have love and not show it.

6 The slap of a friend can be trusted to help you, but the kisses of an enemy are nothing but lies.

7 When you are full, not even honey tastes good, but when you are hungry, even something bitter tastes sweet.

8 A person who leaves his home is like a bird that leaves its nest.

9 The sweet smell of perfume and oils is pleasant, and so is good advice from a friend.

10 Don’t forget your friend or your parent’s friend. Don’t always go to your family for help when trouble comes. A neighbor close by is better than a family far away.

11 Be wise, my child, and make me happy. Then I can respond to any insult.

12 The wise see danger ahead and avoid it, but fools keep going and get into trouble.

13 Take the coat of someone who promises to pay a stranger’s loan, and keep it until he pays what the stranger owes.

14 If you loudly greet your neighbor early in the morning, he will think of it as a curse.

15 A quarreling wife is as bothersome as a continual dripping on a rainy day.

16 Stopping her is like stopping the wind or trying to grab oil in your hand.

17 As iron sharpens iron, so people can improve each other.

18 Whoever tends a fig tree gets to eat its fruit, and whoever takes care of his master will receive honor.

19 As water reflects your face, so your mind shows what kind of person you are.

20 People will never stop dying and being destroyed, and they will never stop wanting more than they have.

21 A hot furnace tests silver and gold, and people are tested by the praise they receive.

22 Even if you ground up a foolish person like grain in a bowl, you couldn’t remove the foolishness.

23 Be sure you know how your sheep are doing, and pay attention to the condition of your cattle.

24 Riches will not go on forever, nor do governments go on forever.

25 Bring in the hay, and let the new grass appear. Gather the grass from the hills.

26 Make clothes from the lambs’ wool, and sell some goats to buy a field.
27 There will be plenty of goat’s milk to feed you and your family and to make your servant girls healthy.

Proverbs 27

1 Boast not thyself of tomorrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.

3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool’s vexation is heavier than they both.

4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

5 Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.

6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; But the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

7 The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place.

9 Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; So doth the sweetness of a man’s friend that cometh of hearty counsel.

10 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 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, That I may answer him that reproacheth me.

12 A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for a foreign woman.

14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, It shall be counted a curse to him.

15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

16 He that would restrain her restraineth the wind; And his right hand encountereth oil.

17 Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

18 Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; And he that regardeth his master shall be honored.

19 As in water face answereth to face, So the heart of man to man.

20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

21 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; And a man is tried by his praise.

22 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 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, And look well to thy herds:

24 For riches are not for ever: And doth the crown endure unto all generations?

25 The hay is carried, and the tender grass showeth itself, And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in.

26 The lambs are for thy clothing, And the goats are the price of the field;

27 And there will be goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, And maintenance for thy maidens.