Proverbs 27

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1} Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

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2} Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

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3} A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

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4} Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

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5} Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

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

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7} One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.

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8} Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.

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9} Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

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10} Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

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11} Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.

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12} The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

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13} Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.

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14} Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.

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15} A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;

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16} to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one's right hand.

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17} Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

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18} Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.

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19} As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.

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20} Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.

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21} The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise.

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22} Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.

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23} Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,

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24} for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?

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25} When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered,

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26} the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field.

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27} There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.