Proverbs 27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
Proverbs 27:2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Proverbs 27:3 A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming; but who can stand before jealousy?
Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs 27:7 He who is sated loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.
Proverbs 27:8 Like a bird that strays from its nest, is a man who strays from his home.
Proverbs 27:9 Oil and perfume make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble.
Proverbs 27:10 Your 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 who is near than a brother who is far away.
Proverbs 27:11 Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
Proverbs 27:12 A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
Proverbs 27:13 Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.
Proverbs 27:14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
Proverbs 27:15 A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
Proverbs 27:16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in his right hand.
Proverbs 27:18 He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
Proverbs 27:19 As in water face answers to face, so the mind of man reflects the man.
Proverbs 27:20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
Proverbs 27:21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is judged by his praise.
Proverbs 27:22 Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.
Proverbs 27:23 Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds;
Proverbs 27:24 for riches do not last for ever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
Proverbs 27:25 When the grass is gone, and the new growth appears, and the herbage of the mountains is gathered,
Proverbs 27:26 the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field;
Proverbs 27:27 there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your maidens.
