Proverbs of Solomon 27

 Proverbs of Solomon 27

1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

2 Let a stranger praise you, and not your own mouth; a foreigner, and not your own lips.

3 A stone is heavy, and the sand is heavy; but the anger of a fool is heavier than both.

4 Wrath is cruel and outrageous anger, but who can stand before envy?

5 Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

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

7 A full soul gnaws at the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

8 As a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a man who wanders from his place. 

9 Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so does the illness of a friend with kind advice.

10 Do not forsake your friend, nor your father's friend, nor enter your brother's house in the day of your adversity. Better is a neighbor near than a brother far away.

11 Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart, that I may have an answer for him who despises me.

12 A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.

13 When someone becomes surety for a stranger, take his garment and take it to pledge for a stranger.

14 Whoever blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning will be counted a curse.

15 The continual dripping of a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

16 He who restrains her restrains the wind, and her right hand strikes oil.

17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens the countenance of another.

18 He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who watches over his master will be honored.

19 As face responds to face in water, so the heart of man to man.

20 Hell and destruction are never satisfied, and the eyes of man are never satisfied.

21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tested by praise.

22 Though you crush a fool with a mortar among grains of barley, his folly will not depart from him.

23 Know the condition of your flock; set your heart on the herd.

24 For riches do not last forever; and should a crown endure from generation to generation? 

25 When the grass appears and the young shoots appear, then gather the herbs from the mountains.

26 The lambs will be for your clothing, and the goats for the price of the field.

27 And there will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the food of your maidens.