Proverbs 27
1 not to boast: boast in/on/with day tomorrow for not to know what? to beget day
Do not boast about tomorrow; for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
2 to boast: praise you be a stranger and not lip your foreign and not lips your
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
3 heaviness stone and weight [the] sand and vexation fool(ish) heavy from two their
A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
4 cruel rage and flood face: anger and who? to stand: stand to/for face: before jealousy
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 pleasant argument to reveal: uncover from love to hide
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
6 be faithful wound to love: friend and be abundant kiss to hate
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
7 soul: person sated to trample honey and soul: person hungry all bitter sweet
A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
8 like/as bird to wander from nest her so man to wander from place his
As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.
9 oil and incense to rejoice heart and sweetness neighbor his from counsel soul: myself
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.
10 neighbor your (and neighbor *QK) 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
Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend. Do not go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.
11 be wise son: child my and to rejoice heart my and to return: reply to taunt me word
Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.
12 prudent to see: see distress: harm to hide simple to pass to fine
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
13 to take: take garment his for to pledge be a stranger and about/through/for foreign to pledge him
Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman.
14 to bless neighbor his in/on/with voice great: large in/on/with morning to rise curse to devise: count to/for him
He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.
15 dripping to pursue in/on/with day rain and woman: wife (contention *QK) be like
A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
16 to treasure her to treasure spirit: breath and oil right his to encounter: toward
restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.
17 iron in/on/with iron to sharpen and man: anyone to sharpen face neighbor his
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.
18 to watch fig to eat fruit her and to keep: guard lord his to honor: honour
Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.
19 like/as water [the] face to/for face so heart [the] man to/for man
As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.
20 hell: Sheol (and destruction his *QK) not to satisfy and eye [the] man not to satisfy (Sheol h7585)
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied. (Sheol h7585)
21 crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and man to/for lip praise his
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.
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 you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
23 to know to know face flock your to set: put heart your to/for flock
Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:
24 for not to/for forever: enduring wealth and if: surely yes consecration: crown to/for generation (and generation *QK)
for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
25 to reveal: remove grass and to see: see grass and to gather vegetation mountain: mount
The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.
26 lamb to/for clothing your and price land: country goat
The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field.
27 and sufficiency milk goat to/for food your to/for food house: household your and life to/for maiden your
There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, for your family's food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.
