King James Bible

 

The Proverbs

 

Chapter 27

 

 

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 [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both.

    
 
 

4.

 

Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?

    
 
 

5.

 

Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.

    
 
 

6.

 

Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] 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 [is] a man that wandereth from his place.

    
 
 

9.

 

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] 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: [for] better [is] a neighbour [that is] 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 [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] 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, [which] bewrayeth [itself].

    
 
 

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 [answereth] 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.

 

[As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise.

    
 
 

22.

 

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.

    
 
 

23.

 

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

    
 
 

24.

 

For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?

    
 
 

25.

 

The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

    
 
 

26.

 

The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.

    
 
 

27.

 

And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.

    
 
 

Proverbs 28

 

 

 

 

 
 
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