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Proverbs 27 📜 📕 ↷
Do Not Boast about Tomorrow
1 Boast not for tomorrow, being ignorant what the day to come may bring forth.📜💬📚
2 Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth: a stranger and not thine own lips.📜💬📚
3 A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than both.📜💬📚
4 Anger hath no mercy, nor fury breaking forth: and the violence of a moved spirit who can sustain?📜💬📚
5 Better is manifest correption, than love hidden.📜💬📚
6 Better are the wounds of him that loveth, than the fraudulent kisses of him that hateth.📜💬📚
7 A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take bitter also for sweet.📜💬📚
8 As a bird fleeting from her nest, so a man that forsaketh his place.📜💬📚
9 The heart is delighted with ointment and diverse odours: and with the good counsels of a friend the soul is sweetened.📜💬📚
10 Thy friend, and thy father's friend do not leave: and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thine affliction. Better is a neighbour near than a brother far off.📜💬📚
11 Study wisdom my son, & make my heart joyful, that thou mayst make answer to the upbraider.📜💬📚
12 The subtle man seeing evil, hideth himself: little ones passing through have sustained evil detriments.📜💬📚
13 Take his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and for aliens take from him a pledge.📜💬📚
14 He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, he shall be like him that curseth.📜💬📚
15 Roofs dropping through in the day of cold, and a brawling woman are compared together:📜💬📚
16 He that retaineth her, as he that should hold the wind, and shall call it the oil of his right hand.📜💬📚
17 Iron is sharpened with iron, and a man sharpeneth the face of his friend.📜💬📚
18 He that keepeth the figtree, shall eat the fruits thereof: and he that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified.📜💬📚
19 As in waters the countenance of them that look therein shineth, so the hearts of men are manifest to the prudent.📜💬📚
20 Hell and perdition are never filled: in like manner also the eyes of men are unsatiable.📜💬📚
21 As silver is tried in the forge, and gold in the furnace: so a man is proved by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after knowledge.📜💬📚
22 If thou shall bray a fool in a mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon ptisane, his folly shall not be taken from him.📜💬📚
23 Know diligently the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy flocks:📜💬📚
24 For thou shalt not have power always: but a crown shall be given into generation and generation.📜💬📚
25 The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the grass is gathered out of the mountains.📜💬📚
26 Lambs for thy garment: and kids the price of the field.📜💬📚
27 Let the milk of the goats suffice thee for thy meats, and for the necessities of thy house: and for victual to thy hand-maids.📜💬📚
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