# Proverbs 27 
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1. Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. 
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2. Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. 
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3. A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both. 
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4. Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? 
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5. Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 
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6. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy. 
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7. One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet. 
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8. Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home. 
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9. Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. 
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10. Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away. 
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11. Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me. 
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12. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. 
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13. Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress. 
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14. Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing. 
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15. A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; 
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16. to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one’s right hand. 
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17. Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. 
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18. Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored. 
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19. As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man. 
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20. Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man. 
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21. The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise. 
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22. Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him. 
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23. Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds, 
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24. for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations? 
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25. When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered, 
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26. the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field. 
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27. There will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls. 

(ESV)