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Proverbs

ESV

Chapter 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 sand is weighty, but a fool's vexation is heavier than both. ⁴Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? ⁵Better is open rebuke than hidden love. ⁶Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy. ⁷One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry every bitter thing is sweet. ⁸Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home. ⁹Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. ¹⁰Your friend and your father's friend do not forsake, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away. ¹¹Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may make answer to him who taunts me. ¹²The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. ¹³Take his garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts it up for an adulteress. ¹⁴Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing him. ¹⁵A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; ¹⁶to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one's right hand. ¹⁷Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. ¹⁸Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored. ¹⁹As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects man. ²⁰Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man. ²¹The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, and a man is tested by his praise. ²²Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him. ²³Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds, ²⁴for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations? ²⁵When the grass is gone and new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered, ²⁶the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field. ²⁷There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your maidens.