Proverbs 27 — BBE
27Verse 1Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.Verse 2Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.Verse 3A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.Verse 4Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?Verse 5Better is open protest than love kept secret.Verse 6The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.Verse 7The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.Verse 8Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.Verse 9Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.Verse 10Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.Verse 11My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.Verse 12The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.Verse 13Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.Verse 14He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.Verse 15Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.Verse 16He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.Verse 17Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.Verse 18Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.Verse 19Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.Verse 20The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.Verse 21The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.Verse 22Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.Verse 23Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;Verse 24For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.Verse 25The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.Verse 26The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:Verse 27There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.