Proverbs 27

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Boast not of tomorrow, for you know not what any day may bring forth.	1 Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.
2 Let another praise you--not your own mouth; Someone else--not your own lips.	2 Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.
3 Stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.	3 A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.
4 Anger is relentless, and wrath overwhelming-- but before jealousy who can stand?	4 Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?
5 Better is an open rebuke than a love that remains hidden.	5 Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
6 Wounds from a friend may be accepted as well meant, but the greetings of an enemy one prays against.	6 Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy.
7 One who is full, tramples on virgin honey; but to the man who is hungry, any bitter thing is sweet.	7 A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb : and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet.
8 Like a bird that is far from its nest is a man who is far from his home.	8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.
9 Perfume and incense gladden the heart, but by grief the soul is torn asunder.	9 Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.
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.	10 Thy own friend, and thy father's friend forsake not: and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a neighbour that is near, than a brother afar off.
11 If you are wise, my son, you will gladden my heart, and I will be able to rebut him who tuants me.	11 Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.
12 The shrewd man perceives evil and hides; simpletons continue on and suffer the penalty.	12 The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.
13 Take his garment who becomes surety for another, and for the sake of a stranger, yield it up!	13 Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.
14 When one greets his neighbor with a loud voice in the early morning, a curse can be laid to his charge.	14 He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth.
15 For a persistent leak on a rainy day the match is a quarrelsome woman.	15 Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.
16 He who keeps her stores up a stormwind; he cannot tell north from south.	16 He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call in the oil of his right hand.
17 As iron sharpens iron, so man sharpens his fellow man.	17 Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
18 He who tends a fig tree eats its fruit, and he who is attentive to his master will be enriched.	18 He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eat the fruit thereof: and he that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified.
19 As one face differs from another, so does one human heart from another.	19 As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so-the hearts of men are laid open to the wise.
20 The nether world and the abyss are never satisfied; so too the eyes of men.	20 Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.
21 As the crucible tests silver and the furnace gold, so a man is tested by the praise he receives.	21 As silver is tried in the fining-pot and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after knowledge.
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.	22 Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.
23 Take good care of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds;	23 Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks :
24 For wealth lasts not forever, nor even a crown from age to age.	24 For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.
25 When the grass is taken away and the aftergrowth appears, and the mountain greens are gathered in,	25 The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered out of the mountains.
26 The lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats will bring the price of a field,	26 Lambs are for thy clothing: and kids for the price of the field.
27 And there will be ample goat's milk to supply you, to supply your household, and maintenance for your maidens.	27 Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the necessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids.