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27:1  Boast not thyself of yom makhar (tomorrow), for thou hast no da’as of what a yom may bring forth.
27:2  Let another praise thee, and not thine own peh (mouth); a nokhri (stranger), and not thine own sfatayim (lips).
27:3  An even (stone) is heavy, and the chol (sand) weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
27:4  Chemah (anger) is cruel, and fury is a torrent, but who is able to stand before kinah (jealousy, envy)?
27:5  Open tovah tokhakhat (good, constructive reproof) is better than secret ahavah.
27:6  Ne’emanim (faithful) are the wounds of an ohev (friend); but deceitful the neshikot (kisses) of an enemy.
27:7  The full nefesh trampleth a honeycomb, but to the hungry nefesh every mar (bitter thing) is sweet.
27:8  As a tzippor that wandereth from her ken (nest), so is an ish that wandereth from his makom (place, home).
27:9  Shemen and ketoret rejoice the lev; so doth the sweet discourse of a re’a (friend) from an atzat nefesh (a counselling of the soul).
27:10  Thine own re’a (friend), and the re’a avicha, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s bais in the yom of thy calamity; for better is a shakhen (neighbor) that is near than a brother far off.
27:11  Beni (my son), be chacham, and make my lev glad, that I may answer my accusers.
27:12  A prudent man foreseeth ra’ah, and hideth himself; but the naïve ones trudge on, and are punished.
27:13  Take his beged (garment) that is collateral for a zar; seize the pledge given for surety for a nokhriyah (strange woman, foreign woman, seductress).
27:14  He that maketh a bracha on his re’a (friend) with a kol gadol (loud voice), rising early in the boker, it shall be counted a kelalah to him.
27:15  A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a quarrelsome isha are alike;
27:16  To restrain her is like restraining the ruach (wind), and like grasping shemen in the right hand.
27:17  Barzel (iron) sharpeneth barzel (iron); so one ish sharpeneth another.
27:18  He who is guard over the te’enah (fig tree) shall eat the p’ri (fruit) thereof, so he that is shomer over his adon shall be honored.
27:19  As mayim reflecteth the face, so one lev ha’adam reflects another.
27:20  Sheol and Avaddon are never full; so the eynayim of adam are never satisfied.
27:21  As the crucible is for kesef, and the furnace for zahav; so is an ish tested by the praise he receives.
27:22  Though thou shouldest grind a fool in the makhtesh (mortar) among grain with the pestle, yet will not his folly be removed from him.
27:23  Be thou diligent to know the condition of thy tzon, and look well to thy adarim (flocks).
27:24  For riches are not l’olam (forever); and doth the nezer (crown) endure dor vador?
27:25  The hay is removed, and the deshe (tender grass) showeth itself, and herbs of the harim are gathered,
27:26  The kevasim (lambs) are for thy clothing, and the goats are the purchase price of the sadeh.
27:27  And thou shalt have cholov of izzim (goats) enough for thy lechem, for the lechem of thy bais, and for the nourishment of thy na’arot (servant girls).