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Proverbs 27

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

2 Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

3 A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.

4 Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?

5 Better is open protest than love kept secret.

6 The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.

7 The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

8 Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.

9 Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

10 Do 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.

11 My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

12 The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

13 Take 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.

14 He 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.

15 Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.

17 Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.

18 Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.

19 Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.

20 The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.

21 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

22 Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

24 For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.

25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:

27 There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 7 Boast not thyself of yom makhar (tomorrow), for thou hast no da’as of what a yom may bring forth.

2 Let another praise thee, and not thine own peh (mouth); a nokhri (stranger), and not thine own sfatayim (lips).

3 An even (stone) is heavy, and the chol (sand) weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.

4 Chemah (anger) is cruel, and fury is a torrent, but who is able to stand before kinah (jealousy, envy)?

5 Open tovah tokhakhat (good, constructive reproof) is better than secret ahavah.

6 Ne’emanim (faithful) are the wounds of an ohev (friend); but deceitful the neshikot (kisses) of an enemy.

7 The full nefesh trampleth a honeycomb, but to the hungry nefesh every mar (bitter thing) is sweet.

8 As a tzippor that wandereth from her ken (nest), so is an ish that wandereth from his makom (place, home).

9 Shemen and ketoret rejoice the lev; so doth the sweet discourse of a re’a (friend) from an atzat nefesh (a counselling of the soul).

10 Thine own re’a (friend), and the re’a avicha, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s bais in the yom of thy calamity; for better is a shakhen (neighbor) that is near than a brother far off.

11 Beni (my son), be chacham, and make my lev glad, that I may answer my accusers.

12 A prudent man foreseeth ra’ah, and hideth himself; but the naïve ones trudge on, and are punished.

13 Take his beged (garment) that is collateral for a zar; seize the pledge given for surety for a nokhriyah (strange woman, foreign woman, seductress).

14 He that maketh a bracha on his re’a (friend) with a kol gadol (loud voice), rising early in the boker, it shall be counted a kelalah to him.

15 A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a quarrelsome isha are alike;

16 To restrain her is like restraining the ruach (wind), and like grasping shemen in the right hand.

17 Barzel (iron) sharpeneth barzel (iron); so one ish sharpeneth another.

18 He who is guard over the te’enah (fig tree) shall eat the p’ri (fruit) thereof, so he that is shomer over his adon shall be honored.

19 As mayim reflecteth the face, so one lev ha’adam reflects another.

20 Sheol and Avaddon are never full; so the eynayim of adam are never satisfied.

21 As the crucible is for kesef, and the furnace for zahav; so is an ish tested by the praise he receives.

22 Though thou shouldest grind a fool in the makhtesh (mortar) among grain with the pestle, yet will not his folly be removed from him.

23 Be thou diligent to know the condition of thy tzon, and look well to thy adarim (flocks).

24 For riches are not l’olam (forever); and doth the nezer (crown) endure dor vador?

25 The hay is removed, and the deshe (tender grass) showeth itself, and herbs of the harim are gathered,

26 The kevasim (lambs) are for thy clothing, and the goats are the purchase price of the sadeh.

27 And thou shalt have cholov of izzim (goats) enough for thy lechem, for the lechem of thy bais, and for the nourishment of thy na’arot (servant girls).