Proverbs 27

¹Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do not know what a day brings forth.

²Let another praise you, and not your own mouth, A stranger, and not your own lips.

³A stone is heavy, and the sand is heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than them both.

⁴Fury is fierce, and anger is overflowing, And who stands before jealousy?

⁵Better is open reproof than hidden love.

⁶The wounds of a lover are faithful, And the kisses of an enemy are abundant.

⁷A satiated soul treads down a honeycomb, And every bitter thing is sweet to a hungry soul.

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

⁹Perfume and incense make the heart glad, And the sweetness of one’s friend—from counsel of the soul.

¹⁰Do not forsake your own friend and the friend of your father, And do not enter the house of your brother in a day of your calamity, A near neighbor is better than a brother far off.

¹¹Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, And I return a word to my reproacher.

¹²The prudent has seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.

¹³Take his garment when a stranger has been guarantor, And pledge it for a strange woman.

¹⁴Whoever is greeting his friend with a loud voice, Rising early in the morning, It is reckoned a light thing to him.

¹⁵A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

¹⁶Whoever is hiding her has hidden the wind, And the ointment of his right hand calls out.

¹⁷Iron is sharpened by iron, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

¹⁸The keeper of a fig tree eats its fruit, And the preserver of his master is honored.

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

²⁰Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied.

²¹A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And a man according to his praise.

²²If you beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things—with a pestle, His folly does not turn aside from off him.

²³Know the face of your flock well, Set your heart to the droves,

²⁴For riches are not for all time, Nor a crown to generation and generation.

²⁵The hay was revealed, and the tender grass seen, And the herbs of mountains gathered.

²⁶Lambs are for your clothing, And the price of the field are male goats,

²⁷And a sufficiency of goats’ milk is for your bread, For bread to your house, and life to your girls!

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