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