Prov-27
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v1
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
v2
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
v3
A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
v4
Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
v5
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
v6
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
v7
One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.
v8
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.
v9
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
v10
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.
v11
Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
v12
The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
v13
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.
v14
Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
v15
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
v16
to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one’s right hand.
v17
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
v18
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
v19
As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.
v20
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
v21
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise.
v22
Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.
v23
Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,
v24
for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
v25
When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered,
v26
the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field.
v27
There will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.