en_cepher - Pro 27 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ BOAST not yourself of tomorrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.

² Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

³ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

⁴ Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

⁵ Open rebuke is better than secret love.

⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

⁷ The full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

⁸ As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man that wanders from his place.

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

¹⁰ Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

¹¹ My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproaches me.

¹² A prudent man forsees the evil, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

¹³ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

¹⁴ He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

¹⁵ A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

¹⁶ Whosoever hides her hides the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrays itself.

¹⁷ Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

¹⁸ Whoso keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waits on his adoniy shall be honored.

¹⁹ As in water face answers to face, so the heart of man to man.

²⁰ She'ol and Abaddon are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

²¹ As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.

²² Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

²³ Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.

²⁴ For riches are not forever: and does the crown endure to every generation?

²⁵ The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

²⁶ The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

²⁷ And you shall have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidens.