Thematic Bible
Proverbs 27:1 (show verse)
Make not thy boast of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what may happen today.
Proverbs 27:2 (show verse)
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; yea, other folk's lips and not thine.
Proverbs 27:3 (show verse)
The stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Proverbs 27:4 (show verse)
Wrath is a cruel thing, and furiousness is a very tempest; yea, who is able to abide envy?
Proverbs 27:5 (show verse)
An open rebuke is better than secret love.
Proverbs 27:6 (show verse)
Faithful are the wounds of a lover, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs 27:7 (show verse)
He that is full, abhorreth a honeycomb; but unto him that is hungry, every sour thing is sweet.
Proverbs 27:8 (show verse)
He that oft times flitteth, is like a bird that forsaketh her nest.
Proverbs 27:9 (show verse)
The heart is glad of a sweet ointment and savour, but a stomach that can give good counsel, rejoiceth a man's neighbour.
Proverbs 27:10 (show verse)
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, see thou forsake not; but go not into thy brother's house in time of thy trouble. Better is a friend at hand than a brother far off.
Proverbs 27:11 (show verse)
My son, be wise, and thou shalt make me a glad heart; so that I shall make answer unto my rebukers.
Proverbs 27:12 (show verse)
A wise man seeing the plague will hide himself; as for fools they go on still, and suffer harm.
Proverbs 27:13 (show verse)
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for the unknown man's sake.
Proverbs 27:14 (show verse)
He that is too hasty to praise his neighbour above measure, shall be taken as one that giveth him an evil report.
Proverbs 27:15 (show verse)
A brawling woman and the roof of the house dropping in a rainy day, may well be compared together.
Proverbs 27:16 (show verse)
He that refraineth her, refraineth the wind, and holdeth oil fast in his hand.
Proverbs 27:17 (show verse)
Like as one iron wheteth another, so doth one man comfort another.
Proverbs 27:18 (show verse)
Whoso keepeth his fig tree, shall enjoy the fruits thereof; he that waiteth upon his master, shall come to honour.
Proverbs 27:19 (show verse)
Like as in one water there appear divers faces, even so divers men have divers hearts.
Proverbs 27:20 (show verse)
Like as hell and destruction are never full, even so the eyes of men can never be satisfied.
Proverbs 27:21 (show verse)
Silver is tried in the mould, and gold in the furnace, and so is a man, when he is openly praised to his face.
Proverbs 27:22 (show verse)
Though thou shouldest bray a fool with a pedestal in a mortar like oatmeal, yet will not his foolishness go from him.
Proverbs 27:23 (show verse)
See that thou know the number of thy cattle thy self, and look well to thy flocks.
Proverbs 27:24 (show verse)
For riches abide not away, and the crown endureth not forever.
Proverbs 27:25 (show verse)
The hay groweth, the grass cometh up, and herbs are gathered in the mountains.
Proverbs 27:26 (show verse)
The lambs shall clothe thee, and for the goats thou shalt have money to thy husbandry.
Proverbs 27:27 (show verse)
Thou shalt have goats' milk enough to feed thee, to uphold thy household, and to sustain thy maidens.