Proverbs Chapter 27

27 : 1 Boast not yourself of to morrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.

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 the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

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

27 : 5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.

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

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

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

27 : 9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

27 : 10 Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

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

27 : 12 A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

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

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

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

27 : 16 Whoever hides her hides the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which denudes itself.

27 : 17 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

27 : 18 Whoever keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waits on his master shall be honored.

27 : 19 As in water face answers to face, so the heart of man to man.

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

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

27 : 22 Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

27 : 23 Be you diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.

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

27 : 25 The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

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

27 : 27 And you shall have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidens.