Proverbs27

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(Pro 27:1) Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
(Pro 27:2) Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
(Pro 27:3) A stone {is} heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath {is} heavier than them both.
(Pro 27:4) Wrath {is} cruel, and anger {is} outrageous; but who {is} able to stand before envy?
(Pro 27:5) Open rebuke {is} better than secret love.
(Pro 27:6) Faithful {are} the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy {are} deceitful.
(Pro 27:7) The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
(Pro 27:8) As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so {is} a man that wandereth from his place.
(Pro 27:9) Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so {doth} the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
(Pro 27:10) Thine 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.
(Pro 27:11) My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
(Pro 27:12) A prudent {man} foreseeth the evil, {and} hideth himself; {but} the simple pass on, {and} are punished.
(Pro 27:13) Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
(Pro 27:14) He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
(Pro 27:15) A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
(Pro 27:16) Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, {which} bewrayeth {itself}.
(Pro 27:17) Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
(Pro 27:18) Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
(Pro 27:19) As in water face {answereth} to face, so the heart of man to man.
(Pro 27:20) Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
(Pro 27:21) {As} the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so {is} a man to his praise.
(Pro 27:22) Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, {yet} will not his foolishness depart from him.
(Pro 27:23) Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, {and} look well to thy herds.
(Pro 27:24) For riches {are} not for ever: and doth the crown {endure} to every generation?
(Pro 27:25) The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
(Pro 27:26) The lambs {are} for thy clothing, and the goats {are} the price of the field.
(Pro 27:27) And {thou shalt have} goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and {for} the maintenance for thy maidens.
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