Proverbs 27 · משלי

Do not boast thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowst not what today may bring forth.

Let another man praise thee, and not thy own mouth; a stranger, and not thy own lips.

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

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

Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

The full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

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

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

Do not forsake thy own friend, and thy father’s friend; nor 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.

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who taunts me.

A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself; but simpletons pass on, and are punished.

Take his garment when he is surety for a stranger, and take his pledge on behalf of an alien woman.

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

A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

Whoever would hide her hides the wind, like the ointment of his right hand, which betrays itself.

Iron sharpens iron; so one man sharpens another.

He who guards the fig tree shall eat its fruit: so he who waits on his master shall be honoured.

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

She᾽ol and Avaddon are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

The refining pot is for silver, arid the furnace for gold; and a man is tried according to his praise.

Though thou shouldst grind a fool in a mortar among crushed grain with a pestle, yet will his foolishness not depart from him.

Be diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

For riches are not forever: and does the crown endure to all generations?

When the grass sprouts forth, and the young grass appears, and the herbs on the mountains are gathered in;

lambs shall provide thy clothing, and goats the price of a field:

and thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance of thy maidens.