Proverbs 27
1 not to boast: boast in/on/with day tomorrow for not to know what? to beget day
Boast not of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what the next day shall bring forth.
2 to boast: praise you be a stranger and not lip your foreign and not lips your
Let thy neighbour, and not thine own mouth, praise thee; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
3 heaviness stone and weight [the] sand and vexation fool(ish) heavy from two their
A stone is heavy, and sand cumbersome; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both.
4 cruel rage and flood face: anger and who? to stand: stand to/for face: before jealousy
Wrath is merciless, and anger sharp: but envy can bear nothing.
5 pleasant argument to reveal: uncover from love to hide
Open reproofs are better than secret love.
6 be faithful wound to love: friend and be abundant kiss to hate
The wounds of a friend are more to be trusted than the spontaneous kisses of an enemy.
7 soul: person sated to trample honey and soul: person hungry all bitter sweet
A full soul scorns honeycombs; but to a hungry soul even bitter things appear sweet.
8 like/as bird to wander from nest her so man to wander from place his
As when a bird flies down from its own nest, so a man is brought into bondage whenever he estranges himself from his own place.
9 oil and incense to rejoice heart and sweetness neighbor his from counsel soul: myself
The heart delights in ointments and wines and perfumes: but the soul is broken by calamities.
10 neighbor your (and neighbor *Q(K)*) father your not to leave: forsake and house: home brother: male-sibling your not to come (in): come in/on/with day calamity your pleasant neighboring near from brother: male-sibling distant
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; and when thou art in distress go not into thy brother's house: better is a friend [that is] near than a brother living far off.
11 be wise son: child my and to rejoice heart my and to return: reply to taunt me word
Son, be wise, that thy heart may rejoice; and remove thou from thyself reproachful words.
12 prudent to see: see distress: harm to hide simple to pass to fine
A wise man, when evils are approaching, hides himself; but fools pass on, and will be punished.
13 to take: take garment his for to pledge be a stranger and about/through/for foreign to pledge him
Take away the man's garment, (for a scorner has passed by) whoever lays waste another's goods.
14 to bless neighbor his in/on/with voice great: large in/on/with morning to rise curse to devise: count to/for him
Whosoever shall bless a friend in the morning with a loud voice, shall seem to differ nothing from one who curses [him].
15 dripping to pursue in/on/with day rain and woman: wife (contention *Q(K)*) be like
On a stormy day drops [of rain] drive a man out of his house; so also does a railing woman [drive a man] out of his own house.
16 to treasure her to treasure spirit: breath and oil right his to encounter: toward
The north wind is sharp, but it is called by name propitious.
17 iron in/on/with iron to sharpen and man: anyone to sharpen face neighbor his
Iron sharpens iron; and a man sharpens his friend's countenance.
18 to watch fig to eat fruit her and to keep: guard lord his to honor: honour
He that plants a fig-tree shall eat the fruits of it: so he that waits on his own master shall be honoured.
19 like/as water [the] face to/for face so heart [the] man to/for man
As faces are not like [other] faces, so neither are the thoughts of men.
20 hell: Sheol (and destruction his *Q(K)*) not to satisfy and eye [the] man not to satisfy (Sheol h7585)
Hell and destruction are not filled; so also are the eyes of men insatiable. [He that fixes his eye is an abomination to the Lord; and the uninstructed do not restrain their tongue.] (Sheol h7585)
21 crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and man to/for lip praise his
Fire is the trial for silver and gold; and a man is tried by the mouth of them that praise him. The heart of the transgressor seeks after mischiefs; but an upright heart seeks knowledge.
22 if to pound [obj] [the] fool(ish) in/on/with hollow in/on/with midst [the] grain in/on/with pestle not to turn aside: depart from upon him folly his
Though thou scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, thou wilt [still] in no wise remove his folly from him.
23 to know to know face flock your to set: put heart your to/for flock
Do thou thoroughly know the number of thy flock, and pay attention to thine herds.
24 for not to/for forever: enduring wealth and if: surely yes consecration: crown to/for generation (and generation *Q(K)*)
For a man [has] not strength and power for ever; neither does he transmit it from generation to generation.
25 to reveal: remove grass and to see: see grass and to gather vegetation mountain: mount
Take care of the herbage in the field, and thou shalt cut grass, and gather the mountain hay;
26 lamb to/for clothing your and price land: country goat
that thou mayest have [wool of] sheep for clothing: pay attention to the land, that thou mayest have lambs.
27 and sufficiency milk goat to/for food your to/for food house: household your and life to/for maiden your
[My] son, thou hast from me words very useful for thy life, and for the life of thy servants.
