Proverbs 27

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Boast not of tomorrow, for you know not what any day may bring forth.	1 Do not congratulate yourself about tomorrow, since you do not know what today wil bring forth.
2 Let another praise you--not your own mouth; Someone else--not your own lips.	2 Let someone else sing your praises, but not your own mouth, a stranger, but not your own lips.
3 Stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.	3 Heavy is the stone, weighty is the sand; heavier than both -- a grudge borne by a fool.
4 Anger is relentless, and wrath overwhelming-- but before jealousy who can stand?	4 Cruel is wrath, overwhelming is anger; but jealousy, who can withstand that?
5 Better is an open rebuke than a love that remains hidden.	5 Better open reproof than feigned love.
6 Wounds from a friend may be accepted as well meant, but the greetings of an enemy one prays against.	6 Trustworthy are blows from a friend, deceitful are kisses from a foe.
7 One who is full, tramples on virgin honey; but to the man who is hungry, any bitter thing is sweet.	7 The gorged throat revolts at honey, the hungry throat finds al bitterness sweet.
8 Like a bird that is far from its nest is a man who is far from his home.	8 Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is anyone who strays away from home.
9 Perfume and incense gladden the heart, but by grief the soul is torn asunder.	9 Oil and perfume gladden the heart, and the sweetness of friendship rather than self-reliance.
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 Do not give up your friend or your father's friend; when trouble comes, do not go off to your brother'shouse, better a near neighbour than a distant brother.
11 If you are wise, my son, you will gladden my heart, and I will be able to rebut him who tuants me.	11 Learn to be wise, my child, and gladden my heart, that I may have an answer for anyone who insultsme.
12 The shrewd man perceives evil and hides; simpletons continue on and suffer the penalty.	12 The discreet sees danger and takes shelter, simpletons go ahead and pay the penalty.
13 Take his garment who becomes surety for another, and for the sake of a stranger, yield it up!	13 Take the man's clothes! He has gone surety for a stranger. Take a pledge from him, for personsunknown.
14 When one greets his neighbor with a loud voice in the early morning, a curse can be laid to his charge.	14 Whoever at dawn loudly blesses his neighbour -- it will be reckoned to him as a curse.
15 For a persistent leak on a rainy day the match is a quarrelsome woman.	15 The dripping of a gutter on a rainy day and a quarrelsome woman are alike;
16 He who keeps her stores up a stormwind; he cannot tell north from south.	16 whoever can restrain her, can restrain the wind, and take a firm hold on grease.
17 As iron sharpens iron, so man sharpens his fellow man.	17 Iron is sharpened by iron, one person is sharpened by contact with another.
18 He who tends a fig tree eats its fruit, and he who is attentive to his master will be enriched.	18 Whoever tends the fig tree eats its figs, whoever looks after his master wil be honoured.
19 As one face differs from another, so does one human heart from another.	19 As water reflects face back to face, so one human heart reflects another.
20 The nether world and the abyss are never satisfied; so too the eyes of men.	20 Sheol and Perdition are never satisfied, insatiable, too, are human eyes.
21 As the crucible tests silver and the furnace gold, so a man is tested by the praise he receives.	21 A furnace for silver, a foundry for gold: a person is worth what his reputation is worth.
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 Pound a fool in a mortar, among grain with a pestle, his fol y wil not leave him.
23 Take good care of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds;	23 Know your flocks' condition well, take good care of your herds;
24 For wealth lasts not forever, nor even a crown from age to age.	24 for riches do not last for ever, crowns do not hand themselves on from age to age.
25 When the grass is taken away and the aftergrowth appears, and the mountain greens are gathered in,	25 The grass once gone, the aftergrowth appearing, the hay gathered in from the mountains,
26 The lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats will bring the price of a field,	26 you should have lambs to clothe you, goats to buy you a field,
27 And there will be ample goat's milk to supply you, to supply your household, and maintenance for your maidens.	27 goat's milk sufficient to feed you, to feed your household and provide for your serving girls.