Proverbs 27:1-12

¹Boast not for tomorrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.

²Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.

³A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.

⁴Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

⁵Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

⁶Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy.

⁷A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet.

⁸As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.

⁹Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.

¹⁰Thy own friend, and thy father’s friend forsake not: and go not into thy brother’s house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a neighbour that is near, than a brother afar off.

¹¹Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.

¹²The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.