Proverbs 27
|
Proverbs 27
|
Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be. | Boast not thyself of tomorrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. |
Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips. | Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips. |
A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these. | A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool's vexation is heavier than they both. |
Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy? | Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy? |
Better is open protest than love kept secret. | Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden. |
The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false. | Faithful are the wounds of a friend; But the kisses of an enemy are profuse. |
The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet. | The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. |
Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station. | As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place. |
Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul. | Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; So doth the sweetness of a man's friend [that cometh] of hearty counsel. |
Do 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. | Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off. |
My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame. | My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, That I may answer him that reproacheth me. |
The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble. | A prudent man seeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [But] the simple pass on, [and] suffer for it. |
Take 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. | Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge [that is surety] for a foreign woman. |
He 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. | He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, It shall be counted a curse to him. |
Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman. | A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike: |
He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith. | He that would restrain her restraineth the wind; And his right hand encountereth oil. |
Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend. | Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. |
Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured. | Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; And he that regardeth his master shall be honored. |
Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another. | As in water face [answereth] to face, So the heart of man to man. |
The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough. | Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied. |
The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for. | The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; And a man is [tried] by his praise. |
Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him. | Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him. |
Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds; | Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [And] look well to thy herds: |
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations. | For riches are not for ever: And doth the crown endure unto all generations? |
The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in. | The hay is carried, and the tender grass showeth itself, And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in. |
The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field: | The lambs are for thy clothing, And the goats are the price of the field; |
There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls. | And [there will be] goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, And maintenance for thy maidens. |