Proverbs 27




jub@Proverbs:27:1 @ Boast not thyself of tomorrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

jub@Proverbs:27:2 @ Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

jub@Proverbs:27:3 @ A stone [is] heavy and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both.

jub@Proverbs:27:4 @ Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] impetuous, but who [is] able to stand before envy?

jub@Proverbs:27:5 @ Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.

jub@Proverbs:27:6 @ Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.

jub@Proverbs:27:7 @ The full soul loathes a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

jub@Proverbs:27:8 @ As a bird that wanders from her nest, so [is] a man that wanders from his place.

jub@Proverbs:27:9 @ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, so [does] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

jub@Proverbs:27:10 @ Do not forsake thine own friend and thy father's friend, 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.

jub@Proverbs:27:11 @ My son, be wise and make my heart glad that I may answer him that reproaches me.

jub@Proverbs:27:12 @ A prudent [man] foresees the evil [and] hides himself, [but] the simple pass on [and] are hurt by it.

jub@Proverbs:27:13 @ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger and take a pledge of him that is surety for a strange woman.

jub@Proverbs:27:14 @ He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

jub@Proverbs:27:15 @ A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

jub@Proverbs:27:16 @ Whosoever hides her hides the wind, because the oil in his right hand cries [out].

jub@Proverbs:27:17 @ Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

jub@Proverbs:27:18 @ Whosoever keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof, so he that waits on his master shall be honoured.

jub@Proverbs:27:19 @ As in water face [corresponds] to face, so the heart of man to man.

jub@Proverbs:27:20 @ Sheol and hell are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

jub@Proverbs:27:21 @ As the fining pot tries the silver and the furnace the gold; so the man is tried by the mouth of whoever praises him.

jub@Proverbs:27:22 @ Though thou should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] his foolishness will not depart from him.

jub@Proverbs:27:23 @ Be thou diligent to know the countenance of thy sheep, [and] put thy heart into thy herds.

jub@Proverbs:27:24 @ For riches [are] not for ever, and does the crown [endure] to every generation?

jub@Proverbs:27:25 @ The tender grass shows itself, and the hay appears, and the herbs of the mountains are reaped.

jub@Proverbs:27:26 @ The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] for the price of the field.

jub@Proverbs:27:27 @ And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance of thy maidens.:


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