Proverbs - Chapter 27 | English Standard Version

  • 1. Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
  • 2. Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
  • 3. A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
  • 4. Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
  • 5. Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
  • 6. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
  • 7. One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.
  • 8. Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.
  • 9. Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
  • 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.
  • 11. Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
  • 12. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
  • 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.
  • 14. Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
  • 15. A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
  • 16. to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one's right hand.
  • 17. Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
  • 18. Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
  • 19. As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.
  • 20. Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
  • 21. The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise.
  • 22. Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.
  • 23. Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,
  • 24. for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
  • 25. When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered,
  • 26. the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field.
  • 27. There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.
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