Proverbs 27

¹Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.SelectedProverbs 27:1CopyShareAsk

²Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.SelectedProverbs 27:2CopyShareAsk

³A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.SelectedProverbs 27:3CopyShareAsk

⁴Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?SelectedProverbs 27:4CopyShareAsk

⁵Open rebuke is better than secret love.SelectedProverbs 27:5CopyShareAsk

⁶Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.SelectedProverbs 27:6CopyShareAsk

⁷The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.SelectedProverbs 27:7CopyShareAsk

⁸As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.SelectedProverbs 27:8CopyShareAsk

⁹Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.SelectedProverbs 27:9CopyShareAsk

¹⁰Thine 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.SelectedProverbs 27:10CopyShareAsk

¹¹My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.SelectedProverbs 27:11CopyShareAsk

¹²A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.SelectedProverbs 27:12CopyShareAsk

¹³Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.SelectedProverbs 27:13CopyShareAsk

¹⁴He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.SelectedProverbs 27:14CopyShareAsk

¹⁵A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.SelectedProverbs 27:15CopyShareAsk

¹⁶Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.SelectedProverbs 27:16CopyShareAsk

¹⁷Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.SelectedProverbs 27:17CopyShareAsk

¹⁸Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.SelectedProverbs 27:18CopyShareAsk

¹⁹As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.SelectedProverbs 27:19CopyShareAsk

²⁰Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.SelectedProverbs 27:20CopyShareAsk

²¹As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.SelectedProverbs 27:21CopyShareAsk

²²Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.SelectedProverbs 27:22CopyShareAsk

²³Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.SelectedProverbs 27:23CopyShareAsk

²⁴For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?SelectedProverbs 27:24CopyShareAsk

²⁵The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.SelectedProverbs 27:25CopyShareAsk

²⁶The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.SelectedProverbs 27:26CopyShareAsk

²⁷And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.SelectedProverbs 27:27CopyShareAsk