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• 27:1Do not boast about tomorrow, / For you do not know what a day may bring forth. Compare
• 27:2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; / A foreigner, and not your own lips. Compare
• 27:3A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, / But a fool's vexation is heavier than both of them. Compare
• 27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming, / But who can stand before jealousy? Compare
• 27:5Open rebuke is better / Than love that is hidden. Compare
• 27:6Faithful are the wounds of a friend, / But the kisses of an enemy are profuse. Compare
• 27:7The full soul loathes a honeycomb, / But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. Compare
• 27:8Like a bird that wanders from her nest, / So is a man who wanders from his place. Compare
• 27:9Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; / So a man's counsel is sweet to his friend. Compare
• 27:10Do not forsake your own friend or your father's friend / To go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity: / Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away. Compare
• 27:11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, / That I may answer him who reproaches me. Compare
• 27:12A prudent man sees evil and hides himself; / But the simple pass on and suffer punishment for it. Compare
• 27:13Take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger, / And hold one in pledge who is surety for a foreign woman. Compare
• 27:14He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, / Arousing him early in the morning, / It will be reckoned as a curse to him. Compare
• 27:15A continual dripping on a very rainy day / And a contentious woman are alike; Compare
• 27:16He who would restrain her restrains the wind, / And grasps oil with his right hand. Compare
• 27:17Iron sharpens iron; / So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. Compare
• 27:18Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, / And he who takes care of his master will be honored. Compare
• 27:19As in water face reflects face, / So the heart of man reflects man. Compare
• 27:20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, / And the eyes of man are never satisfied. Compare
• 27:21The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, / And a man is tried by the praise given him. Compare
• 27:22Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, / His folly will not depart from him. Compare
• 27:23Know well the condition of your flocks, / And pay attention to your herds - Compare
• 27:24For riches are not forever, / Nor does a crown endure from generation to generation - Compare
• 27:25Then when the grass has disappeared, and the tender grass is seen, / And the herbs of the mountains have been gathered in, Compare
• 27:26The lambs will be for your clothing, / And the goats will bring the price of a field; Compare
• 27:27And there will be goats' milk enough for your food, / For the food of your household, / And for the sustenance for your maidens. Compare

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