Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs for Everyone by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub

Proverbs 27:1–27

Faithful Are the Wounds of a Friend

1 Don’t boast about tomorrow,

because you don’t know what the day will give birth to.

2 A stranger should boast about you and not your mouth,

a foreigner and not your lips.

3 A stone is weighty and sand is heavy,

but a stupid person’s vexation is heavier than both of them.

4 There is the cruelty of fury and the flooding of anger,

but who can stand before passion?

5 Open reproof

is better than concealed friendship.

6 The wounds of a friend are trustworthy;

the kisses of an enemy are importunate.

7 A full person despises honey,

but as for a hungry person: anything bitter is sweet.

8 Like a sparrow flitting from its nest,

so is a person flitting from his home.

9 Oil and incense gladden the heart,

and the sweetness of one’s friend more than one’s own counsel.

10 Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,

or go to your brother’s house on your day of calamity.

Better one who dwells near

than a brother far away.

11 Be wise, son, and gladden my heart,

so that I may respond to someone who insults me with a word.

12 When a shrewd person sees something evil, he hides;

naive people pass on and pay the penalty.

13 Take his coat, because he made a pledge to a strange man;

bind him, on account of a foreign woman.

14 One who blesses his neighbor in a loud voice in the morning early:

it will be counted for him as humiliating [his neighbor].

15 A continuing drip on a rainy day

and an argumentative woman are alike.

16 One who hides her hides the wind,

and oil on his right hand announces her.

17 Iron sharpens iron,

and a person sharpens the edge of his friend.

18 One who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit,

and one who watches his master will be honored.

19 Like water, face-to-face,

so the heart of a person to a person.

20 Sheol and Abaddon don’t get full,

and the eyes of a human being don’t get full.

21 The crucible for silver, the furnace for gold,

and an individual with regard to his praise.

22 If you grind a stupid person in a mortar,

in the midst of the grain in a pestle,

his stupidity will not depart from him.

23 You should really know the faces of your flock,

apply your attention to your herds,

24 because wealth isn’t forever

or a crown for generation after generation.

25 The hay goes away and the new grass appears

and the growth of the mountains is gathered.

26 The lambs are for your clothing,

the goats for the price of a field,

27 enough goats’ milk for your food,

for food for your household and life for your young girls.

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