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