Proverbs 27

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1} Do not boast {about tomorrow}, for you do not know what the day will bring.

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

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3} Heavy [is] a stone and weighty [is] sand, but [the] provocation of a fool [is] heavier than both of them.

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4} Cruel [is] wrath and overwhelming [is] anger, but who will stand before jealousy?

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5} Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden.

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6} The wounds of a friend mean well, but the kisses of an enemy are profane.

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7} An {appetite} that is sated spurns honey, but [to] an {appetite} that is ravenous, all bitterness [is] sweet.

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8} Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is a man who strays from his place.

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9} Perfume and incense will gladden a heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend [is] {personal advice}.

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10} As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake [them], and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.

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11} Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, and I will answer him who reproaches me [with] a word.

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12} [When] the clever sees danger, he hides; the simple go on [and] suffer.

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13} Take his garment, for he gives surety [to] a stranger, and to {an adulteress}--[so] take his pledge.

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14} He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, a curse will be reckoned to him.

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15} Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain and a woman of contention are alike.

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16} [In] restraining her, he restrains wind, and his right hand will grasp oil.

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17} [As] iron sharpens iron, so {one man sharpens another}.

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

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19} As the waters [reflect] {face to face}, so the heart of a person [reflects] the person.

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20} Sheol and Abaddon will not be satisfied, and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied [either].

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21} A crucible [is] for the silver, and a furnace for the gold, but a man [is tested by] the mouth of him who praises him.

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22} If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle {along with} the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him.

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23} You will surely know the {condition} of your flock; your heart attends to the herds.

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24} For riches [are] not forever, nor a crown for generation [after] generation.

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25} When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear, and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered.

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26} Lambs [will be] your clothing, and goats the price of the field.

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27} And [there will be] enough goats' milk for your food, for [the] food of your household and [the] {nourishment} of your maidservants.