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CHAP. XXVII.

1 Obseruations of selfe-loue: 5 of true loue: 11 of care to auoid offences: 23 and of the housholde care.

¹Boast not thy selfe of to morrow: for thou knowest not what a day may bring foorth.¹

²Let another man praise thee, and not thine owne mouth; a stranger, and not thine owne lips.

³A stone is heauie, and the sand weightie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.³

⁴Wrath is cruell, and anger is outragious: but who is able to stand before enuie?⁴

⁵Open rebuke is better then secret loue.

⁶Faithfull are the woundes of a friend: but the kisses of an enemy are deceitfull.⁶

⁷The full soule loatheth an honie combe: but to the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.⁷

⁸As a bird that wandreth from her nest: so is a man that wandreth from his place.

⁹Oyntment and perfume reioyce the heart: so doeth the sweetnesse of a mans friend by heartie counsell.⁹

¹⁰Thine owne friend and thy fathers friend forsake not; neither goe in to thy brothers house in the day of thy calamitie: for better is a neighbour that is neere, then a brother farre off.¹⁰

Know thy flocke.

¹¹My sonne, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answere him that reprocheth me.¹¹

¹²A prudent man foreseeth the euil, and hideth himselfe: but the simple passe on, and are punished.¹²

¹³Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.¹³

¹⁴He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising earely in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

¹⁵A continuall dropping in a very rainie day, and a contentious woman, are alike.¹⁵

¹⁶Whosoeuer hideth her, hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand which be wrayeth it selfe.

¹⁷Iron sharpeneth iron: so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

¹⁸Whoso keepeth the figtree, shall eate the fruit therof: so he that waiteth on his master, shall be honoured.

¹⁹As in water face answereth to face: so the heart of man to man.

²⁰Hell and destruction are neuer full: so the eyes of man are neuer satisfied.²⁰

²¹As the fining pot for siluer, and the furnace for gold: so is a man to his praise.²¹

²²Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnesse depart from him.

²³Be thou diligent to knowe the state of thy flocks, and looke well to thy herds.²³

²⁴For riches are not for euer: and doth the crowne endure to euery generation?²⁴

²⁵The hay appeareth, and the tender grasse sheweth it selfe, and herbes of the mountaines are gathered.

²⁶The lambes are for thy clothing, and the goates are the price of thy field.

²⁷And thou shalt haue goats milke enough for thy food, for the food of thy houshold, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.²⁷

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Proverbs Chapter 27

¹ Iam.4.13, &c. , Heb. to morrow day.
³ Heb. heauinesse.
⁴ Heb. wrath is crueltie, and anger an ouerflowing. , Or, ielousie.
⁶ Psal.141.5 , Or, earnest, or frequent.
⁷ Iob 6.7. , Heb. treadeth vnder foote.
⁹ Heb. from the counsell of the soule.
¹⁰ Chap. 17. 17. and 18. 24.
¹¹ Cha.10.1. and 23.24.
¹² Chap. 22.3
¹³ Chap. 20. 16.
¹⁵ Chap.19. 13.
²⁰ Eccles.1.8 , Hebr. not.
²¹ Chap.17.3
²³ Hebr. set thy heart.
²⁴ Hebr. strength. , Hebr. to generation and generation.
²⁷ Hebr. life.

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