Proverbs - Chapter 27 | New International Version

  • 1. Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
  • 2. Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.
  • 3. Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but provocation by a fool is heavier than both.
  • 4. Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
  • 5. Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
  • 6. Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
  • 7. He who is full loathes honey, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.
  • 8. Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.
  • 9. Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel.
  • 10. Do not forsake your friend and the friend of your father, and do not go to your brother's house when disaster strikes you-- better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
  • 11. Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart; then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt.
  • 12. The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
  • 13. Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman.
  • 14. If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
  • 15. A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day;
  • 16. restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.
  • 17. As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
  • 18. He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.
  • 19. As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.
  • 20. Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are the eyes of man.
  • 21. The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but man is tested by the praise he receives.
  • 22. Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him.
  • 23. Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds;
  • 24. for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.
  • 25. When the hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered in,
  • 26. the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.
  • 27. You will have plenty of goats' milk to feed you and your family and to nourish your servant girls.
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