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| Proverbs 27:1 | Don't boast about tomorrow; For you don't know what a day may bring forth. | Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be. | Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth. | Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. |
| Proverbs 27:2 | Let another man praise you, And not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips. | Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips. | Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips. | Let another man praise thee, and not thy own mouth; a stranger, and not thy own lips. |
| Proverbs 27:3 | A stone is heavy, And sand is a burden; But a fool's provocation is heavier than both. | A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these. | A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both. | A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both. |
| Proverbs 27:4 | Wrath is cruel, And anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy? | Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy? | Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked? | Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? |
| Proverbs 27:5 | Better is open rebuke Than hidden love. | Better is open protest than love kept secret. | Open rebuke is better than hidden love. | Open rebuke is better than secret love. |
| Proverbs 27:6 | Faithful are the wounds of a friend; Although the kisses of an enemy are profuse. | The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false. | Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy. | Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. |
| Proverbs 27:7 | A full soul loathes a honeycomb; But to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. | The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet. | A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb : and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet. | The full soul lotheth a honey-comb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. |
| Proverbs 27:8 | As a bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who wanders from his home. | Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station. | As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place. | As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. |
| Proverbs 27:9 | Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; So does earnest counsel from a man's friend. | Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul. | Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul. | Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. |
| Proverbs 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. | Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off. | Thy own friend, and thy father's friend forsake not: and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a neighbour that is near, than a brother afar off. | Thy 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 neighbor that is near, than a brother far off. |
| Proverbs 27:11 | Be wise, my son, And bring joy to my heart, Then I can answer my tormentor. | My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame. | Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth. | My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. |
| Proverbs 27:12 | A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it: | The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble. | The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses. | A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. |
| Proverbs 27:13 | Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger; Hold it for a wayward woman! | Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men. | Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers. | Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. |
| Proverbs 27:14 | He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, It will be taken as a curse by him. | He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse. | He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth. | He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him. |
| Proverbs 27:15 | A continual dropping on a rainy day And a contentious wife are alike: | Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman. | Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike. | A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. |
| Proverbs 27:16 | Restraining her is like restraining the wind, Or like grasping oil in his right hand. | He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith. | He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call in the oil of his right hand. | Whoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand which bewrayeth itself. |
| Proverbs 27:17 | Iron sharpens iron; So a man sharpens his friend's countenance. | Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend. | Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. | Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. |
| Proverbs 27:18 | Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored. | Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured. | He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eat the fruit thereof: and he that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified. | He that keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit of it: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored. |
| Proverbs 27:19 | As water reflects a face, So a man's heart reflects the man. | Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another. | As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so-the hearts of men are laid open to the wise. | As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. |
| Proverbs 27:20 | Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And a man's eyes are never satisfied. | The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough. | Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied. | Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. |
| Proverbs 27:21 | The crucible is for silver, And the furnace for gold; But man is refined by his praise. | The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for. | As silver is tried in the fining-pot and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after knowledge. | As the fining-pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise. |
| Proverbs 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. | Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him. | Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him. | Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him. |
| Proverbs 27:23 | Know well the state of your flocks, And pay attention to your herds: | Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds; | Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks : | Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. |
| Proverbs 27:24 | For riches are not forever, Nor does even the crown endure to all generations. | For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations. | For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation. | For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? |
| Proverbs 27:25 | The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, The grasses of the hills are gathered in. | The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in. | The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered out of the mountains. | The plant appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. |
| Proverbs 27:26 | The lambs are for your clothing, And the goats are the price of a field. | The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field: | Lambs are for thy clothing: and kids for the price of the field. | The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. |
| Proverbs 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. | There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls. | Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the necessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids. | And thou shalt have goats milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for maintenance for thy maidens. |
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