Proverbs 27 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Warnings and Instructions

Pro 27:1

Pro 27:1Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

Pro 27:2

Pro 27:2Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

Pro 27:3

Pro 27:3A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.

Pro 27:4

Pro 27:4Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?

Pro 27:5

Pro 27:5Better is open protest than love kept secret.

Pro 27:6

Pro 27:6The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.

Pro 27:7

Pro 27:7The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

Pro 27:8

Pro 27:8Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.

Pro 27:9

Pro 27:9Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

Pro 27:10

Pro 27:10Do 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.

Pro 27:11

Pro 27:11My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

Pro 27:12

Pro 27:12The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

Pro 27:13

Pro 27:13Take 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.

Pro 27:14

Pro 27:14He 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.

Pro 27:15

Pro 27:15Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

Pro 27:16

Pro 27:16He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.

Pro 27:17

Pro 27:17Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.

Pro 27:18

Pro 27:18Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.

Pro 27:19

Pro 27:19Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.

Pro 27:20

Pro 27:20The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.

Pro 27:21

Pro 27:21The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

Pro 27:22

Pro 27:22Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

Pro 27:23

Pro 27:23Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

Pro 27:24

Pro 27:24For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.

Pro 27:25

Pro 27:25The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

Pro 27:26

Pro 27:26The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:

Pro 27:27

Pro 27:27There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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