mkjv - 27

mkjv@Proverbs:27:1 @ Do not boast yourself of tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

mkjv@Proverbs:27:2 @ Let another man praise you, and not your mouth; a stranger, and not your lips.

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

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

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

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

mkjv@Proverbs:27:7 @ The full soul despises a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing [is] sweet.

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

mkjv@Proverbs:27:9 @ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of one's friend by advice from the heart.

mkjv@Proverbs:27:10 @ Your own friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake them; nor go to your brother's house in the day of your trouble; better [is] a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

mkjv@Proverbs:27:11 @ My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer him who shames me.

mkjv@Proverbs:27:12 @ A sensible one foresees the evil [and] hides himself, but the simple pass on [and] are punished.

mkjv@Proverbs:27:13 @ Take his robe that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for a strange woman.

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

mkjv@Proverbs:27:15 @ A never-ending dropping in a very rainy day and a quarrelsome woman are alike.

mkjv@Proverbs:27:16 @ Whoever hides her hides the wind, and his right [hand] encounters [slippery] oil.

mkjv@Proverbs:27:17 @ Iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the face of his friend.

mkjv@Proverbs:27:18 @ Whoever keeps the fig tree shall eat its fruit; so he who waits on his master shall be honored.

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

mkjv@Proverbs:27:20 @ Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

mkjv@Proverbs:27:21 @ [As] the refining pot for silver and the furnace for gold, so [is] a man to his praise.

mkjv@Proverbs:27:22 @ Though you should pound a fool in a bowl with a bar in the midst of wheat, his foolishness will not depart from him.

mkjv@Proverbs:27:23 @ Know well the face of your flocks; set your heart on your herds.

mkjv@Proverbs:27:24 @ For riches [are] not forever; nor the crown from generation to generation?

mkjv@Proverbs:27:25 @ When the hay is removed, and the tender grass is seen, and mountain-plants are gathered,

mkjv@Proverbs:27:26 @ the lambs [are] for your clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.

mkjv@Proverbs:27:27 @ And [you shall have] goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and a living for your young women.

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Proverbs 27