Proverbs 27

¹ Boast not of tomorrow, for you know not what any day may bring forth.

² Let another praise you--not your own mouth; Someone else--not your own lips.

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

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

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

⁶ Wounds from a friend may be accepted as well meant, but the greetings of an enemy one prays against.

⁷ One who is full, tramples on virgin honey; but to the man who is hungry, any bitter thing is sweet.

⁸ Like a bird that is far from its nest is a man who is far from his home.

⁹ Perfume and incense gladden the heart, but by grief the soul is torn asunder.

¹⁰ Your own friend and your father's friend forsake not; but if ruin befalls you, enter not a kinsman's house. Better is a neighbor near at hand than a brother far away.

¹¹ If you are wise, my son, you will gladden my heart, and I will be able to rebut him who tuants me.

¹² The shrewd man perceives evil and hides; simpletons continue on and suffer the penalty.

¹³ Take his garment who becomes surety for another, and for the sake of a stranger, yield it up!

¹⁴ When one greets his neighbor with a loud voice in the early morning, a curse can be laid to his charge.

¹⁵ For a persistent leak on a rainy day the match is a quarrelsome woman.

¹⁶ He who keeps her stores up a stormwind; he cannot tell north from south.

¹⁷ As iron sharpens iron, so man sharpens his fellow man.

¹⁸ He who tends a fig tree eats its fruit, and he who is attentive to his master will be enriched.

¹⁹ As one face differs from another, so does one human heart from another.

²⁰ The nether world and the abyss are never satisfied; so too the eyes of men.

²¹ As the crucible tests silver and the furnace gold, so a man is tested by the praise he receives.

²² Though you should pound the fool to bits with the pestle, amid the grits in a mortar, his folly would not go out of him.

²³ Take good care of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds;

²⁴ For wealth lasts not forever, nor even a crown from age to age.

²⁵ When the grass is taken away and the aftergrowth appears, and the mountain greens are gathered in,

²⁶ The lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats will bring the price of a field,

²⁷ And there will be ample goat's milk to supply you, to supply your household, and maintenance for your maidens.