en_cjb - Pro 27 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Don’t boast about tomorrow, for you don’t know what the day may bring.

² Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

³ Stone is heavy and sand a dead weight, but a fool’s provocation outweighs them both.

⁴ Fury is cruel and anger overwhelming, but who can stand up to jealousy?

⁵ Better open rebuke than hidden love.

⁶ Wounds from a friend are received as well-meant, but an enemy’s kisses are insincere.

⁷ A person who is full loathes a honeycomb; but to the hungry, any bitter thing is sweet.

⁸ Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.

⁹ Perfume and incense make the heart glad, [also] friendship sweet with advice from the heart.

¹⁰ Don’t abandon a friend who is also a friend of your father. Don’t enter your brother’s house on the day of your calamity — better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

¹¹ My son, become wise, and gladden my heart, so that I can answer my critics.

¹² The clever see trouble coming and hide; the thoughtless go on and pay the penalty.

¹³ Seize his clothes because he guaranteed a stranger’s loan; take them as security for that unknown woman.

¹⁴ Whoever greets his neighbor in a loud voice at dawn might just as well have cursed him.

¹⁵ A leak that keeps dripping on a rainy day and the nagging of a wife are the same —

¹⁶ whoever can restrain her can restrain the wind or keep perfume on his hand from making itself known.

¹⁷ Just as iron sharpens iron, a person sharpens the character of his friend.

¹⁸ Whoever tends the fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who is attentive to his master will be honored.

¹⁹ Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another.

²⁰ Sh’ol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and human eyes are never satisfied.

²¹ The crucible [tests] silver, and the furnace [tests] gold, but a person [is tested] by [his reaction to] praise.

²² You can crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle, along with the grain being crushed; yet his foolishness will not leave him.

²³ Take care to know the condition of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds.

²⁴ For wealth doesn’t last forever, neither does a crown through all generations.

²⁵ When the hay has been mown, and the new grass appears, and the mountain greens have been gathered;

²⁶ the lambs will provide your clothing, the goats will sell for enough to buy a field,

²⁷ and there will be enough goat’s milk to [buy] food for you and your household and maintenance for your servant-girls.