MKJV - Proverbs - 27

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

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

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

27:4  Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before envy?

27:5  Open rebuke is better than secret love.

27:6  Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

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

27:8  As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

27:16  Whoever hides her hides the wind, and his right hand encounters slippery oil.

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

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

27:19  As in water face answers to face, so the heart of man answers to man.

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

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

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.

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

27:24  For riches are not forever; nor the crown from generation to generation?

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

27:26  the lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

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.