Proverbs 27 : 1 (ESV)
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Proverbs 27 : 2 (ESV)
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Proverbs 27 : 3 (ESV)
A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
Proverbs 27 : 4 (ESV)
Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
Proverbs 27 : 5 (ESV)
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Proverbs 27 : 6 (ESV)
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs 27 : 7 (ESV)
One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.
Proverbs 27 : 8 (ESV)
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.
Proverbs 27 : 9 (ESV)
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
Proverbs 27 : 10 (ESV)
Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.
Proverbs 27 : 11 (ESV)
Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
Proverbs 27 : 12 (ESV)
The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
Proverbs 27 : 13 (ESV)
Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.
Proverbs 27 : 14 (ESV)
Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
Proverbs 27 : 15 (ESV)
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
Proverbs 27 : 16 (ESV)
to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one's right hand.
Proverbs 27 : 17 (ESV)
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Proverbs 27 : 18 (ESV)
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
Proverbs 27 : 19 (ESV)
As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.
Proverbs 27 : 20 (ESV)
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
Proverbs 27 : 21 (ESV)
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise.
Proverbs 27 : 22 (ESV)
Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.
Proverbs 27 : 23 (ESV)
Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,
Proverbs 27 : 24 (ESV)
for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
Proverbs 27 : 25 (ESV)
When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered,
Proverbs 27 : 26 (ESV)
the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field.
Proverbs 27 : 27 (ESV)
There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.
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