Proverbs 27:4-14

4 Wrath is cruel and anger is outraging, but who is able to stand before envy?

5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.

6 Faithful are the wounds from a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

7 The full soul loathes a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man who wandereth from his place.

9 Ointment and perfume make the heart rejoice; so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by counsel from the heart.

10 Thine own friend and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity; for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

11 My son, be wise and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.

13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, but take a pledge from him for a strange woman.

14 He that, rising early in the morning, blesseth his friend with a loud voice: it shall be counted as a curse to him.

Proverbs 27:4-14 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.