Young's Literal Translation

 

The Proverbs

 

Chapter 27

 

 

1.

 

Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

    
 
 

2.

 

Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.

    
 
 

3.

 

A stone [is] heavy, and the sand [is] heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both.

    
 
 

4.

 

Fury [is] fierce, and anger [is] overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?

    
 
 

5.

 

Better [is] open reproof than hidden love.

    
 
 

6.

 

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

    
 
 

7.

 

A satiated soul treadeth down a honeycomb, And [to] a hungry soul every bitter thing [is] sweet.

    
 
 

8.

 

As a bird wandering from her nest, So [is] a man wandering from his place.

    
 
 

9.

 

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend -- from counsel of the soul.

    
 
 

10.

 

Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better [is] a near neighbour than a brother afar off.

    
 
 

11.

 

Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.

    
 
 

12.

 

The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.

    
 
 

13.

 

Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

    
 
 

14.

 

Whoso is saluting his friend with a loud voice, In the morning rising early, A light thing it is reckoned to him.

    
 
 

15.

 

A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

    
 
 

16.

 

Whoso is hiding her hath hidden the wind, And the ointment of his right hand calleth out.

    
 
 

17.

 

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

    
 
 

18.

 

The keeper of a fig-tree eateth its fruit, And the preserver of his master is honoured.

    
 
 

19.

 

As [in] water the face [is] to face, So the heart of man to man.

    
 
 

20.

 

Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied.

    
 
 

21.

 

A refining pot [is] for silver, and a furnace for gold, And a man according to his praise.

    
 
 

22.

 

If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things -- with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

    
 
 

23.

 

Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,

    
 
 

24.

 

For riches [are] not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation.

    
 
 

25.

 

Revealed was the hay, and seen the tender grass, And gathered the herbs of mountains.

    
 
 

26.

 

Lambs [are] for thy clothing, And the price of the field [are] he-goats,

    
 
 

27.

 

And a sufficiency of goats' milk [is] for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!

    
 
 

Proverbs 28

 

 

 

 

 
 
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