Proverbs 27

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1} Make not thy boast of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what may happen today.

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2} Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; yea, other folk's lips and not thine.

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

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4} Wrath is a cruel thing, and furiousness is a very tempest; yea, who is able to abide envy?

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5} An open rebuke is better than secret love.

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6} Faithful are the wounds of a lover, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

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7} He that is full, abhorreth a honeycomb; but unto him that is hungry, every sour thing is sweet.

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8} He that oft times flitteth, is like a bird that forsaketh her nest.

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9} The heart is glad of a sweet ointment and savour, but a stomach that can give good counsel, rejoiceth a man's neighbour.

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10} Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, see thou forsake not; but go not into thy brother's house in time of thy trouble. Better is a friend at hand than a brother far off.

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11} My son, be wise, and thou shalt make me a glad heart; so that I shall make answer unto my rebukers.

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12} A wise man seeing the plague will hide himself; as for fools they go on still, and suffer harm.

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13} Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for the unknown man's sake.

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14} He that is too hasty to praise his neighbour above measure, shall be taken as one that giveth him an evil report.

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15} A brawling woman and the roof of the house dropping in a rainy day, may well be compared together.

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16} He that refraineth her, refraineth the wind, and holdeth oil fast in his hand.

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17} Like as one iron wheteth another, so doth one man comfort another.

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18} Whoso keepeth his fig tree, shall enjoy the fruits thereof; he that waiteth upon his master, shall come to honour.

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19} Like as in one water there appear divers faces, even so divers men have divers hearts.

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20} Like as hell and destruction are never full, even so the eyes of men can never be satisfied.

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21} Silver is tried in the mould, and gold in the furnace, and so is a man, when he is openly praised to his face.

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22} Though thou shouldest bray a fool with a pedestal in a mortar like oatmeal, yet will not his foolishness go from him.

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23} See that thou know the number of thy cattle thy self, and look well to thy flocks.

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24} For riches abide not away, and the crown endureth not forever.

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25} The hay groweth, the grass cometh up, and herbs are gathered in the mountains.

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26} The lambs shall clothe thee, and for the goats thou shalt have money to thy husbandry.

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27} Thou shalt have goats' milk enough to feed thee, to uphold thy household, and to sustain thy maidens.