Proverbs 27

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