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27:1 Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be. 27:2 Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips. 27:3 A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these. 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy? 27:5 Better is open protest than love kept secret. 27:6 The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false. 27:7 The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet. 27:8 Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station. 27:9 Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul. 27:10 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. 27:11 My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame. 27:12 The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble. 27:13 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. 27:14 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. 27:15 Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman. 27:16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith. 27:17 Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend. 27:18 Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured. 27:19 Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another. 27:20 The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough. 27:21 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for. 27:22 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. 27:23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds; 27:24 For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations. 27:25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in. 27:26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field: 27:27 There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.