{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/pro027.htm","path":"bib/kjv/pro027.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/pro027.htm","text":"1\u00a0Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.\n \n2\u00a0Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.\n \n3\u00a0A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.\n \n4\u00a0Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?\n \n5\u00a0Open rebuke is better than secret love.\n \n6\u00a0Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.\n \n7\u00a0The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.\n \n8\u00a0As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.\n \n9\u00a0Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.\n \n10\u00a0Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.\n \n11\u00a0My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.\n \n12\u00a0A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.\n \n13\u00a0Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.\n \n14\u00a0He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.\n \n15\u00a0A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.\n \n16\u00a0Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.\n \n17\u00a0Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.\n \n18\u00a0Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.\n \n19\u00a0As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.\n \n20\u00a0Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.\n \n21\u00a0As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.\n \n22\u00a0Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.\n \n23\u00a0Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.\n \n24\u00a0For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?\n \n25\u00a0The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.\n \n26\u00a0The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.\n \n27\u00a0And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.","title":"King James Version: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 27","type":"page"}