27Proverbs 27

1Boast not yourself of to morrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.Select Proverbs 27:1

2Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.Select Proverbs 27:2

3A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.Select Proverbs 27:3

4Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?Select Proverbs 27:4

5Open rebuke is better than secret love.Select Proverbs 27:5

6Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.Select Proverbs 27:6

7The full soul loathes an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.Select Proverbs 27:7

8As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man that wanders from his place.Select Proverbs 27:8

9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.Select Proverbs 27:9

10Your own friend, and your father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother’s house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.Select Proverbs 27:10

11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproaches me.Select Proverbs 27:11

12A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.Select Proverbs 27:12

13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.Select Proverbs 27:13

14He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.Select Proverbs 27:14

15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.Select Proverbs 27:15

16Whoever hides her hides the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which denudes itself.Select Proverbs 27:16

17Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.Select Proverbs 27:17

18Whoever keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waits on his master shall be honored.Select Proverbs 27:18

19As in water face answers to face, so the heart of man to man.Select Proverbs 27:19

20Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.Select Proverbs 27:20

21As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.Select Proverbs 27:21

22Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.Select Proverbs 27:22

23Be you diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.Select Proverbs 27:23

24For riches are not for ever: and does the crown endure to every generation?Select Proverbs 27:24

25The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.Select Proverbs 27:25

26The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.Select Proverbs 27:26

27And you shall have goats’ milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidens.Select Proverbs 27:27