Proverbs 27

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

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

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

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

⁵Better is open rebuke than hidden love .

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

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

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

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

¹⁰Do 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 .

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

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

¹³Take 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 .

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

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

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

¹⁷Iron sharpens iron , and one man sharpens another .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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