Proverbs 27

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Boast not of tomorrow, for you know not what any day may bring forth.	1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
2 Let another praise you--not your own mouth; Someone else--not your own lips.	2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
3 Stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.	3 stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
4 Anger is relentless, and wrath overwhelming-- but before jealousy who can stand?	4 Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming; but who can stand before jealousy?
5 Better is an open rebuke than a love that remains hidden.	5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
6 Wounds from a friend may be accepted as well meant, but the greetings of an enemy one prays against.	6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the 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 He who is sated loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is 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, is a man who strays from his home.
9 Perfume and incense gladden the heart, but by grief the soul is torn asunder.	9 Oil and perfume make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble.
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 Your friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake; and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is 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.	11 Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
12 The shrewd man perceives evil and hides; simpletons continue on and suffer the penalty.	12 A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
13 Take his garment who becomes surety for another, and for the sake of a stranger, yield it up!	13 Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.
14 When one greets his neighbor with a loud voice in the early morning, a curse can be laid to his charge.	14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
15 For a persistent leak on a rainy day the match is a quarrelsome woman.	15 A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
16 He who keeps her stores up a stormwind; he cannot tell north from south.	16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in his right hand.
17 As iron sharpens iron, so man sharpens his fellow man.	17 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
18 He who tends a fig tree eats its fruit, and he who is attentive to his master will be enriched.	18 He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
19 As one face differs from another, so does one human heart from another.	19 As in water face answers to face, so the mind of man reflects the man.
20 The nether world and the abyss are never satisfied; so too the eyes of men.	20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
21 As the crucible tests silver and the furnace gold, so a man is tested by the praise he receives.	21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is judged by his praise.
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 Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.
23 Take good care of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds;	23 Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds;
24 For wealth lasts not forever, nor even a crown from age to age.	24 for riches do not last for ever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
25 When the grass is taken away and the aftergrowth appears, and the mountain greens are gathered in,	25 When the grass is gone, and the new growth appears, and the herbage of the mountains is gathered,
26 The lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats will bring the price of a field,	26 the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats 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.	27 there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your maidens.