27:1 Boast not of tomorrow, for you know not what any day may bring forth.
27:2 Let another praise you ?not your own mouth; Someone else ?not your own lips.
27:3 Stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
27:4 Anger is relentless, and wrath overwhelming ? but before jealousy who can stand?
27:5 Better is an open rebuke than a love that remains hidden.
27:6 Wounds from a friend may be accepted as well meant, but the greetings of an enemy one prays against.
27:7 One who is full, tramples on virgin honey; but to the man who is hungry, any bitter thing is sweet.
27:8 Like a bird that is far from its nest is a man who is far from his home.
27:9 Perfume and incense gladden the heart, but by grief the soul is torn asunder.
27:10 Your own friend and your father’s friend forsake not; but if ruin befalls you, enter not a kinsman’s house. Better is a neighbor near at hand than a brother far away.
27:11 If you are wise, my son, you will gladden my heart, and I will be able to rebut him who tuants me.
27:12 The shrewd man perceives evil and hides; simpletons continue on and suffer the penalty.
27:13 Take his garment who becomes surety for another, and for the sake of a stranger, yield it up!
27:14 When one greets his neighbor with a loud voice in the early morning, a curse can be laid to his charge.
27:15 For a persistent leak on a rainy day the match is a quarrelsome woman.
27:16 He who keeps her stores up a stormwind; he cannot tell north from south.
27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so man sharpens his fellow man.
27:18 He who tends a fig tree eats its fruit, and he who is attentive to his master will be enriched.
27:19 As one face differs from another, so does one human heart from another.
27:20 The nether world and the abyss are never satisfied; so too the eyes of men.
27:21 As the crucible tests silver and the furnace gold, so a man is tested by the praise he receives.
27:22 Though you should pound the fool to bits with the pestle, amid the grits in a mortar, his folly would not go out of him.
27:23 Take good care of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds;
27:24 For wealth lasts not forever, nor even a crown from age to age.
27:25 When the grass is taken away and the aftergrowth appears, and the mountain greens are gathered in,
27:26 The lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats will bring the price of a field,
27:27 And there will be ample goat’s milk to supply you, to supply your household, and maintenance for your maidens.