Chapter 27
1:
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
2: Let another man praise
thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
3: A stone is heavy, and the sand
weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
4: Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is
able to stand before envy?
5: Open rebuke is better than secret love.
6: Faithful are the
wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
7: The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to
the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
8: As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that
wandereth from his place.
9: Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend
by hearty counsel.
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.
11: My son,
be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
12: A prudent man foreseeth the
evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
13: Take his garment that is surety for
a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
14: He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice,
rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
15: A continual dropping in a very rainy day
and a contentious woman are alike.
16: Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right
hand, which bewrayeth itself.
17: Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
18: Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be
honoured.
19: As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
20: Hell and
destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21: As the fining pot for silver, and
the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
22: Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among
wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
23: Be thou diligent to know the state of
thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
24: For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every
generation?
25: The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are
gathered.
26: The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
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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