| 27.1 |
Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring. |
| 27.2 |
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. |
| 27.3 |
A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both. |
| 27.4 |
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy? |
| 27.5 |
Better is open rebuke than hidden love. |
| 27.6 |
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse. |
| 27.7 |
A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. |
| 27.8 |
As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home. |
| 27.9 |
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend. |
| 27.10 |
Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother. |
| 27.11 |
Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor. |
| 27.12 |
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it. |
| 27.13 |
Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman! |
| 27.14 |
He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him. |
| 27.15 |
A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike: |
| 27.16 |
restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand. |
| 27.17 |
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. |
| 27.18 |
Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored. |
| 27.19 |
Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man. |
| 27.20 |
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied. |
| 27.21 |
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise. |
| 27.22 |
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him. |
| 27.23 |
Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds: |
| 27.24 |
for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations. |
| 27.25 |
The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in. |
| 27.26 |
The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field. |
| 27.27 |
There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls. |
