PR-27:1  Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not

what a day may

bring forth.

PR-27:2  Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a

stranger, and

not thine own lips.

PR-27:3  A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's

wrath [is]

heavier than them both.

PR-27:4  Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who

[is] able to

stand before envy?

PR-27:5  Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.

PR-27:6  Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses

of an enemy

[are] deceitful.

PR-27:7  The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry

soul every

bitter thing is sweet.

PR-27:8  As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man

that wandereth

from his place.

PR-27:9  Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the

sweetness of a

man's friend by hearty counsel.

PR-27:10  Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not;

 neither go

into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: [for]

better [is] a

neighbour [that is] near than a brother far off.

PR-27:11  My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may

answer him that

reproacheth me.

PR-27:12  A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth

himself; [but] the

simple pass on, [and] are punished.

PR-27:13  Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and

take a pledge of

him for a strange woman.

PR-27:14  He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising

early in the

morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

PR-27:15  A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a

contentious woman are

alike.

PR-27:16  Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment

of his right

hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].

PR-27:17  Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the

countenance of his

friend.

PR-27:18  Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof:

 so he that

waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

PR-27:19  As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of

man to man.

PR-27:20  Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of

man are never

satisfied.

PR-27:21  [As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for

gold; so [is] a

man to his praise.

PR-27:22  Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among

wheat with a

pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.

PR-27:23  Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks,

[and] look well to

thy herds.

PR-27:24  For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown

[endure] to every

generation?

PR-27:25  The hay appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself,

 and herbs of

the mountains are gathered.

PR-27:26  The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are]

the price of

the field.

PR-27:27  And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food,

for the food

of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.

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