Proverbs 27:1-24 ▼

1 Thou shalt not boast upon the day of the morrow, for thou shalt not know what a day shall bring forth.

2 A stranger shall praise thee, and not thy mouth; a stranger, and not thy lips.

3 A stone is heavy and sand a burden, and the wrath of the foolish one heavy more than they two.

4 Wrath is cruelty, and anger an overflowing; and who shall stand before jealousy?

5 Naked rebuke is good above secret love.

6 Faithful the wounds of a friend; and abundant the kisses of an enemy.

7 The full soul will tread down the honey droppings, and to the hungry soul all bitter is sweet.

8 As the bird wandering from her nest, so is a man wandering from his place.

9 Oil and incense will rejoice the heart: and the sweetness from his friend from the counsel of the soul.

10 Thy friend and thy father's friend thou shalt not forsake; and thou shalt not go to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: good he dwelling near, more than a brother far off.

11 My son, be wise and gladden my heart, and I will turn back word to him reproaching me.

12 The prudent one saw the evil, he hid himself; the simple passed and were punished.

13 Take his garment pledging a stranger, and bind him by a pledge for a strange woman.

14 He blessing his friend with a great voice, rising early in the morning, a curse shall be reckoned to him.

15 A dropping thrust forth in the day of rain and a woman of strifes were alike.

16 He hiding her, hid the wind, and he shall call the oil of his right hand.

17 Iron will sharpen upon iron; and a man will sharpen the face of his friend.

18 He guarding the fig tree shall eat its fruit: and he watching his lord shall be honored.

19 As in water, face to face, so the heart of man to man.

20 Hades and destruction shall not be satisfied; and the eyes of man shall not be satisfied.

21 The crucible for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man to the mouth praising him.

22 If thou shalt pound the foolish in a mortar in the midst of the grain with a pestle, thou shalt not remove from him his folly.

23 Knowing, thou shalt know the face of thy flock; set thy heart to thy herds.

24 For not strength forever, and not consecration to generation and generation.