Proverbs 27:1-27

27Do not boast about tomorrow,
for you do not know what a day may bring.
²Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—
a stranger, and not your own lips.
³A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty,
but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
⁴Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming,
but who is able to stand before jealousy?
⁵Better is open rebuke
than hidden love.
⁶Well meant are the wounds a friend inflicts,
but profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
⁷The sated appetite spurns honey,
but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet.
⁸Like a bird that strays from its nest
is one who strays from home.
⁹Perfume and incense make the heart glad,
but the soul is torn by trouble.
¹⁰Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent;
do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is nearby
than kindred who are far away.
¹¹Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad,
so that I may answer whoever reproaches me.
¹²The clever see danger and hide;
but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
¹³Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger;
seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.
¹⁴Whoever blesses a neighbor with a loud voice,
rising early in the morning,
will be counted as cursing.
¹⁵A continual dripping on a rainy day
and a contentious wife are alike;
¹⁶to restrain her is to restrain the wind
or to grasp oil in the right hand.
¹⁷Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens the wits of another.
¹⁸Anyone who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
and anyone who takes care of a master will be honored.
¹⁹Just as water reflects the face,
so one human heart reflects another.
²⁰Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,
and human eyes are never satisfied.
²¹The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold,
so a person is tested by being praised.
²²Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle
along with crushed grain,
but the folly will not be driven out. ²³Know well the condition of your flocks,
and give attention to your herds;
²⁴for riches do not last forever,
nor a crown for all generations.
²⁵When the grass is gone, and new growth appears,
and the herbage of the mountains is gathered,
²⁶the lambs will provide your clothing,
and the goats the price of a field;
²⁷there will be enough goats’ milk for your food,
for the food of your household
and nourishment for your servant-girls.

From the oremus Bible Browser https://bible.oremus.org v2.9.2 30 June 2021.