Proverbs 27  Legacy Standard Bible

27 ^(A)Do not boast about tomorrow,
For you ^(B)do not know what a day may bring forth.
² Let a ^(C)stranger praise you, and not your own mouth;
A foreigner, and not your own lips.
³ A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
But the provocation of an ignorant fool is heavier than both of them.
⁴ Wrath is cruelty and anger is a flood,
But ^(D)who can stand before jealousy?
⁵ Better is reproof that is ^(E)revealed
Than love that is hidden.
⁶ Faithful are the ^(F)wounds of a friend,
But ^[a]deceitful are the ^(G)kisses of an enemy.
⁷ A satisfied soul tramples the honeycomb,
But to a hungry soul any bitter thing is sweet.
⁸ Like a ^(H)bird that wanders from her nest,
So is a man who ^(I)wanders from his place.
^9 (J)Oil and incense make the heart glad,
So counsel from the ^[b]soul is sweet to his friend.
¹⁰ Do not forsake your ^(K)friend or ^(L)your father’s friend,
And do not come to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster;
Better is one who dwells near than a brother far away.
^11 (M)Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad,
That I may ^(N)respond with a word to him who reproaches me.
¹² A prudent man sees evil and hides,
The simple pass on and are punished.
^13 (O)Take his garment when he becomes a guarantor for a stranger;
And for ^[c]a foreign woman seize it as a pledge.
^14 (P)He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be counted as a curse to him.
¹⁵ A ^(Q)constant dripping on a day of steady rain
And a contentious woman are alike;
¹⁶ He who would ^[d]restrain her ^[e]restrains the wind,
And ^[f]grasps oil with his right hand.
¹⁷ Iron sharpens iron,
So one man sharpens another.
¹⁸ He who guards the ^(R)fig tree will eat its fruit,
And he who ^(S)keeps watch for his master will be honored.
¹⁹ As in water face reflects face,
So the heart of man reflects man.
^20 (T)Sheol and Abaddon are ^(U)never satisfied,
So the ^(V)eyes of man are never satisfied.
²¹ The ^(W)refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
And each ^(X)is tested by the mouth that praises him.
²² Though you ^(Y)pound an ignorant fool in a mortar with a pestle in the midst of crushed grain,
His ^[g]folly will not turn aside from him.