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27:1  Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
27:2  Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
27:3  A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
27:4  Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
27:5  Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
27:6  Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
27:7  One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.
27:8  Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.
27:9  Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
27:10  Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbour who is near than a brother who is far away.
27:11  Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
27:12  The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
27:13  Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.
27:14  Whoever blesses his neighbour with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
27:15  A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
27:16  to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one's right hand.
27:17  Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
27:18  Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honoured.
27:19  As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.
27:20  Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
27:21  The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise.
27:22  Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.
27:23  Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,
27:24  for riches do not last for ever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
27:25  When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered,
27:26  the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field.
27:27  There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.