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Proverbs 27 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:1 - Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:2 - Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:3 - A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:4 - Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:5 - Better is open protest than love kept secret.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:6 - The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:7 - The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:8 - Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:9 - Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:12 - The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:15 - Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:16 - He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:17 - Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:18 - Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:19 - Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:20 - The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:23 - Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:24 - For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:25 - The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:26 - The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:27 - There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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