<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1017049">Proverbs</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1017845">Chapter 27</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1017816">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1017873">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Proverbs of Solomon</em></p><p><em>Proverbs of Solomon Copied by Men of Hezekiah</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017846">1</a>. BOAST not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017847">2</a>. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017848">3</a>. A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017849">4</a>. Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017850">5</a>. Open rebuke is better than secret love.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017851">6</a>. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017852">7</a>. The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017853">8</a>. As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017854">9</a>. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017855">10</a>. Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017856">11</a>. My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017857">12</a>. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017858">13</a>. Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017859">14</a>. He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017860">15</a>. A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017861">16</a>. Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017862">17</a>. Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017863">18</a>. Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017864">19</a>. As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017865">20</a>. Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017866">21</a>. As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017867">22</a>. Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017868">23</a>. Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017869">24</a>. For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017870">25</a>. The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017871">26</a>. The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017872">27</a>. And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.</li>
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