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| The Book of Proverbs 27 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Darby Online Bible (DBY) | ||||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:1 | Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:2 | Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:3 | A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than them both. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:4 | Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy? | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:5 | Open rebuke is better than hidden love. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:6 | Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are profuse. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:7 | The full soul trampleth on a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:8 | As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:9 | Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; and the sweetness of one's friend is [the fruit] of hearty counsel. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:10 | Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:11 | Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:12 | A prudent [man] seeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; the simple pass on, [and] are punished. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:13 | Take his garment that is become surety [for] another, and hold him in pledge for a strange woman. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:14 | He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be reckoned a curse to him. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:15 | A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:16 | whosoever will restrain her restraineth the wind, and his right hand encountereth oil. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:17 | Iron is sharpened by iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:18 | Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that guardeth his master shall be honoured. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:19 | As [in] water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:20 | Sheol and destruction are insatiable; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:21 | The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; so let a man be to the mouth that praiseth him. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:22 | If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:23 | Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks; look well to thy herds: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:24 | for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown [endure] from generation to generation? | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:25 | The hay is removed, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered in. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:26 | The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of a field; | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:27 | and there is goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and sustenance for thy maidens. | |||||||||||||||
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