Proverbs 27
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- 1Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.
- 2Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.
- 3A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.
- 4Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
- 5Better is open protest than love kept secret.
- 6The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.
- 7The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.
- 8Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.
- 9Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
- 10Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.
- רֵֽעֲךָ֨
- וְרֵ֪עַQere, written (Ketiv): וְרֵעֶה
- אָבִ֡יךָ
- אַֽל־
- אַֽל'al-may notH0408
- תַּעֲזֹ֗ב
- תַּעֲזֹ֗בta.'a.Zoyou forsakeH5800A
- וּבֵ֥ית
- אָחִ֗יךָ
- אַל־
- אַל'al-may notH0408
- תָּ֭בוֹא
- תָּ֭בוֹאTa.Vo'you goH0935G
- בְּי֣וֹם
- אֵידֶ֑ךָ
- ט֥וֹב
- ט֥וֹבTov[is] goodH2896A
- שָׁכֵ֥ן
- שָׁכֵ֥ןsha.Khena neighborH7934
- קָ֝ר֗וֹב
- קָ֝ר֗וֹבka.RovnearH7138
- מֵאָ֥ח
- רָחֽוֹק׃
- רָחֽוֹקra.Chokfar awayH7350
- 11My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.
- 12The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.
- 13Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
- 14He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.
- 15Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.
- 16He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
- 17Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.
- 18Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.
- 19Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.
- 20The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
- 21The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.
- מַצְרֵ֣ף
- מַצְרֵ֣ףmatz.Refa crucibleH4715
- לַ֭כֶּסֶף
- וְכ֣וּר
- לַזָּהָ֑ב
- וְ֝אִ֗ישׁ
- לְפִ֣י
- מַהֲלָלֽוֹ׃
- מַצְרֵ֣ף
- 22Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.
- 23Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
- 24For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
- 25The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.
- 26The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
- 27There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
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