Proverbs, 27

1. Do not congratulate yourself about tomorrow, since you do not know what today will bring forth.

1. Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a 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 man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

3. Heavy is the stone, weighty is the sand; heavier than both -- a grudge borne by a fool.

3. A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both.

4. Cruel is wrath, overwhelming is anger; but jealousy, who can withstand that?

4. Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?

5. Better open reproof than feigned love.

5. Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.

6. Trustworthy are blows from a friend, deceitful are kisses from a foe.

6. Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.

7. The gorged throat revolts at honey, the hungry throat finds all bitterness sweet.

7. The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

8. Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is anyone who strays away from home.

8. As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place.

9. Oil and perfume gladden the heart, and the sweetness of friendship rather than self-reliance.

9. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

10. Do not give up your friend or your father's friend; when trouble comes, do not go off to your brother's house, better a near neighbour than a distant brother.

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.

11. Learn to be wise, my child, and gladden my heart, that I may have an answer for anyone who insults me.

11. My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

12. The discreet sees danger and takes shelter, simpletons go ahead and pay the penalty.

12. A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished.

13. Take the man's clothes! He has gone surety for a stranger. Take a pledge from him, for persons unknown.

13. Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

14. Whoever at dawn loudly blesses his neighbour -- it will be reckoned to him as a curse.

14. He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

15. The dripping of a gutter on a rainy day and a quarrelsome woman are alike;

15. A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

16. whoever can restrain her, can restrain the wind, and take a firm hold on grease.

16. Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].

17. Iron is sharpened by iron, one person is sharpened by contact with another.

17. Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

18. Whoever tends the fig tree eats its figs, whoever looks after his master will be honoured.

18. Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

19. As water reflects face back to face, so one human heart reflects another.

19. As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.

20. Sheol and Perdition are never satisfied, insatiable, too, are human eyes.

20. Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

21. A furnace for silver, a foundry for gold: a person is worth what his reputation is worth.

21. [As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise.

22. Pound a fool in a mortar, among grain with a pestle, his folly will not leave him.

22. Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.

23. Know your flocks' condition well, take good care of your herds;

23. Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.

24. for riches do not last for ever, crowns do not hand themselves on from age to age.

24. For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?

25. The grass once gone, the aftergrowth appearing, the hay gathered in from the mountains,

25. The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

26. you should have lambs to clothe you, goats to buy you a field,

26. The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.

27. goat's milk sufficient to feed you, to feed your household and provide for your serving girls.

27. And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.