Proverbs 27:1-16 ▼

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

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

3 Stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

4 Anger is cruel, and wrath overwhelming, but before jealousy who can stand?

5 Better is an open rebuke than a love that remains hidden.

6 Trustworthy are the blows of a friend, dangerous, the kisses of an enemy.

7 One who is full spurns honey; but to the hungry, any bitter thing is sweet.

8 Like a bird far from the nest so is anyone far from home.

9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, but by grief the soul is torn asunder.

10 Do not give up your own friend and your father’s friend; do not resort to the house of your kindred when trouble strikes. Better a neighbor near than kin far away.

11 Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I can answer whoever taunts me.

12 The astute see an evil and hide; the naive continue on and pay the penalty.

13 Take the garment of the one who became surety for a stranger; if for a foreign woman, exact the pledge!

14 Those who greet their neighbor with a loud voice in the early morning, a curse can be laid to their charge.

15 For a persistent leak on a rainy day the match is a quarrelsome wife;

16 Whoever would hide her hides a stormwind and cannot tell north from south.