Proverbs 27

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.	1 Boast not of tomorrow, for you know not what any day may bring forth.
2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.	2 Let another praise you--not your own mouth; Someone else--not your own lips.
3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.	3 Stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?	4 Anger is relentless, and wrath overwhelming-- but before jealousy who can stand?
5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.	5 Better is an open rebuke than a love that remains hidden.
6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.	6 Wounds from a friend may be accepted as well meant, but the greetings of an enemy one prays against.
7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.	7 One who is full, tramples on virgin honey; but to the man who is hungry, any bitter thing is sweet.
8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.	8 Like a bird that is far from its nest is a man who is far from his home.
9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.	9 Perfume and incense gladden the heart, but by grief the soul is torn asunder.
10 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.	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 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.	11 If you are wise, my son, you will gladden my heart, and I will be able to rebut him who tuants me.
12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.	12 The shrewd man perceives evil and hides; simpletons continue on and suffer the penalty.
13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.	13 Take his garment who becomes surety for another, and for the sake of a stranger, yield it up!
14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.	14 When one greets his neighbor with a loud voice in the early morning, a curse can be laid to his charge.
15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.	15 For a persistent leak on a rainy day the match is a quarrelsome woman.
16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.	16 He who keeps her stores up a stormwind; he cannot tell north from south.
17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.	17 As iron sharpens iron, so man sharpens his fellow man.
18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.	18 He who tends a fig tree eats its fruit, and he who is attentive to his master will be enriched.
19 As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.	19 As one face differs from another, so does one human heart from another.
20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.	20 The nether world and the abyss are never satisfied; so too the eyes of men.
21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.	21 As the crucible tests silver and the furnace gold, so a man is tested by the praise he receives.
22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.	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 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.	23 Take good care of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds;
24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?	24 For wealth lasts not forever, nor even a crown from age to age.
25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.	25 When the grass is taken away and the aftergrowth appears, and the mountain greens are gathered in,
26 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.	26 The lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats will bring the price of a field,
27 And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.	27 And there will be ample goat's milk to supply you, to supply your household, and maintenance for your maidens.