# Proverbs 27 [[Proverbs 26|←]] • [[Proverbs 28|→]] --- ### 1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. ### 2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. ### 3 A stone heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath heavier than them both. ### 4 Wrath cruel, and anger outrageous; but who able to stand before envy? ### 5 Open rebuke better than secret love. ### 6 Faithful the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy deceitful. ### 7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. ### 8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so a man that wandereth from his place. ### 9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. ### 10 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: better a neighbour near than a brother far off. ### 11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. ### 12 A prudent foreseeth the evil, hideth himself; the simple pass on, are punished. ### 13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. ### 14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him. ### 15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. ### 16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, bewrayeth ### 17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. ### 18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. ### 19 As in water face to face, so the heart of man to man. ### 20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. ### 21 the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so a man to his praise. ### 22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, will not his foolishness depart from him. ### 23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, look well to thy herds. ### 24 For riches not for ever: and doth the crown to every generation? ### 25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. ### 26 The lambs for thy clothing, and the goats the price of the field. ### 27 And goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and the maintenance for thy maidens.