Proverbs
27
- Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do
not know what a day may bring forth.
- Let another praise you, and not your own
mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.
- Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but provocation
by a fool is heavier than both.
- Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but
who can stand before jealousy ?
- Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
- Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but
an enemy multiplies kisses.
- He who is full loathes honey, but to the
hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.
- Like a bird that strays from its nest is
a man who strays from his home.
- Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart,
and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel.
- Do not forsake your friend and the friend
of your father, and do not go to your brother's house when disaster strikes
you -- better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
- Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart;
then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt.
- The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
- Take the garment of one who puts up security
for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman.
- If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early
in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
- A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping
on a rainy day;
- restraining her is like restraining the
wind or grasping oil with the hand.
- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens
another.
- He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
and he who looks after his master will be honored.
- As water reflects a face, so a man's heart
reflects the man.
- Death and Destruction are never satisfied,
and neither are the eyes of man.
- The crucible for silver and the furnace
for gold, but man is tested by the praise he receives.
- Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding
him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him.
- Be sure you know the condition of your flocks,
give careful attention to your herds;
- for riches do not endure forever, and a
crown is not secure for all generations.
- When the hay is removed and new growth appears
and the grass from the hills is gathered in,
- the lambs will provide you with clothing,
and the goats with the price of a field.
- You will have plenty of goats' milk to feed
you and your family and to nourish your servant girls.
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