Proverbs 27:1-9

Warnings and Instructions

1 ¹Do not boast about tomorrow, For you ²do not know what a day may bring forth.

2 Let ³another praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.

3 A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.

4 Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, But ⁴who can stand before jealousy?

5 Better is ⁵open rebuke Than love that is concealed.

6 Faithful are the ⁶wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the ⁷kisses of an enemy.

7 A sated man loathes honey, But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet.

8 Like a ⁸bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who ⁹wanders from his home.

9 ¹⁰Oil and perfume make the heart glad, So a man's counsel is sweet to his friend.

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Proverbs 27:1-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 14

This chapter relates the sickness of Jeroboam's son, the application of his wife, at his instance, to the prophet Ahijah, in the child's favour, 1Ki 14:1-6, the prophecy of the prophet concerning the ruin of Jeroboam's house, and the death of the child, which came to pass, 1Ki 14:7-18, an account of the years of Jeroboam's reign, and also of Rehoboam's, 1Ki 14:19-21, and of the evil things done and suffered by the latter in his kingdom, and the calamities that came upon him for it, 1Ki 14:22-28 and the conclusion of his reign, 1Ki 14:29-31.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

1. James 4:13-16
2. Luke 12:19, 20; James 4:14
3. Proverbs 25:27; 2 Corinthians 10:12, 18; 2 Corinthians 12:11
4. Proverbs 6:34; 1 John 3:12
5. Proverbs 28:23; Galatians 2:14
6. Psalms 141:5; Proverbs 20:30
7. Matthew 26:49
8. Proverbs 26:2; Isaiah 16:2
9. Genesis 21:14
10. Psalms 23:5; Psalms 141:5

Footnotes 6

[a]. Or "excessive"
[b]. Lit "soul"
[c]. Lit "tramples on"
[d]. Lit "soul"
[e]. Lit "place"
[f]. Lit "soul's"