Proverbs 27

1Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

3A stone is heavy, and a load of sand is burdensome, but a fool’s anger is heavier than both.

4Wrath is cruel, and anger is a flood, but who can stand before jealousy?

5Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

6The wounds of a friend are faithful, but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.

7A satisfied person tramples honey underfoot, but to a hungry person every bitter thing is sweet.

8Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

9Oil and incense make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from heartfelt counsel.

10Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; a nearby neighbor is better than a distant brother.

11Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer the one who reproaches me.

12A prudent man sees danger and hides himself, but the simple pass on and suffer for it.

13Take his garment, for he has put up security for a stranger; take a pledge from him for a foreign woman.

14Whoever loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be counted to him as a curse.

15A constant dripping on a day of heavy rain and a quarrelsome wife are alike.

16Whoever restrains her restrains the wind, and his right hand grasps oil.

17Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

18Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who watches over his master will be honored.

19As a face is reflected in water, so a person’s heart reflects the person.

20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and the eyes of man are never satisfied.

21The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tested by his praise.

22Even if you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle among crushed grain, his foolishness will not depart from him.

23Know well the condition of your flock; set your heart on the herds.

24For wealth does not last forever, nor a crown from generation to generation.

25The grass is gone, and fresh growth appears, and the plants of the mountains are gathered.

26Lambs are for your clothing, and male goats are the price of a field.

27And there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household, and sustenance for your servant girls.