Proverbs 27:18-27

18 Whosoever keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof, so he that waits on his master shall be honoured.

19 As in water face corresponds to face, so the heart of man to man.

20 Sheol and hell are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

21 As the fining pot tries the silver and the furnace the gold; so the man is tried by the mouth of whoever praises him.

22 Though thou should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

23 Be thou diligent to know the countenance of thy sheep, and put thy heart into thy herds.

24 For riches are not for ever, and does the crown endure to every generation?

25 The tender grass shows itself, and the hay appears, and the herbs of the mountains are reaped.

26 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are for the price of the field.

27 And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance of thy maidens.

Proverbs 27:18-27 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.