Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth; a stranger, and never your own lips.
New American Standard Bible
A stranger, and not your own lips.
King James Version
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Holman Bible
a stranger, and not your own lips.
A Conservative Version
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.
American Standard Version
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.
Amplified
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
A stranger, and not your own lips.
Bible in Basic English
Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.
Darby Translation
Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Julia Smith Translation
A stranger shall praise thee, and not thy mouth; a stranger, and not thy lips.
King James 2000
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Lexham Expanded Bible
May another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
Modern King James verseion
Let another man praise you, and not your mouth; a stranger, and not your lips.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; yea, other folk's lips and not thine.
NET Bible
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.
New Heart English Bible
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
The Emphasized Bible
Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Webster
Let another man praise thee, and not thy own mouth; a stranger, and not thy own lips.
World English Bible
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Youngs Literal Translation
Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.
Interlinear
Zuwr
Halal
Peh
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 27:2
Prayers for Proverbs 27:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Life
1 Never brag about the day to come, because you don't know what it might bring. 2 Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth; a stranger, and never your own lips. 3 Rocks are heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation outweighs them both.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:27
To eat too much honey isn't good; and neither is it honorable to seek one's own glory.
2 Corinthians 10:18
It is not the person who commends himself who is approved, but the person whom the Lord commends.
2 Corinthians 10:12
We would not dare put ourselves in the same class with, or compare ourselves to, those who recommend themselves. Whenever they measure themselves by their own standards or compare themselves among themselves, they show how foolish they are.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become a fool. You forced me to be one. Really, I should have been commended by you, for I am not in any way inferior to your "super-apostles," even if I am nothing.