Proverbs 27:1-20

¹Boast not thyself of to morrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

²Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.

³A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.

⁴Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; But who is able to stand before envy?

⁵Open rebuke is better than secret love.

⁶Faithful are the wounds of a friend; But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

⁷The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

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

⁹Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: So doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

¹⁰Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; 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.

¹¹My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, That I may answer him that reproacheth me.

¹²A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and are punished.

¹³Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, And take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

¹⁴He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, It shall be counted a curse to him.

¹⁵A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike.

¹⁶Whosoever hideth her, hideth the wind, And the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

¹⁷Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

¹⁸Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: So he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

¹⁹As in water face answereth to face, So the heart of man to man.

²⁰Hell and destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.