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| The Book of Proverbs 27 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Basic English Online Bible (BEN) | ||||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:1 | Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:2 | Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:3 | A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:4 | Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy? | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:5 | Better is open protest than love kept secret. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:6 | The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:7 | The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:8 | Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:9 | Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:10 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:11 | My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:12 | The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:13 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:14 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:15 | Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:16 | He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:17 | Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:18 | Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:19 | Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:20 | The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:21 | The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:22 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:23 | Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds; | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:24 | For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:25 | The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:26 | The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:27 | There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls. | |||||||||||||||
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