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| The Book of Proverbs 27 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:1 | Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:2 | Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:3 | A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:4 | Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked? | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:5 | Open rebuke is better than hidden love. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:6 | Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:7 | A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb : and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:8 | As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:9 | Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:10 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:11 | Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:12 | The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:13 | Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:14 | He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:15 | Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:16 | He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call in the oil of his right hand. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:17 | Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:18 | He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eat the fruit thereof: and he that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:19 | As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so-the hearts of men are laid open to the wise. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:20 | Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:21 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:22 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:23 | Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks : | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:24 | For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:25 | The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered out of the mountains. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:26 | Lambs are for thy clothing: and kids for the price of the field. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 27:27 | Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the necessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids. | |||||||||||||||
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