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Book of Proverbs, Chapter 27

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Chapter 27 of Proverbs—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Do not make your boast about the next day,1 for you do not know what a day will give birth to.2
  2. ¶ May a stranger, and not your own mouth, praise you; may a foreigner, and not your own lips, do so.3
  3. ¶ The heaviness of a stone and a load of sand4—but the vexation by someone foolish is heavier than both of them.5
  4. ¶ There is the cruelty of rage, also the flood of anger,6 but who can stand before jealousy?7
  5. ¶ Better is a revealed reproof8 than a concealed love.
  6. ¶ The wounds inflicted by a lover[a] are faithful,9 but the kisses of a hater are things to be entreated.[b]10
  7. ¶ A soul that is satisfied will tread down comb honey, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.11
  8. ¶ Just like a bird fleeing away from its nest,12 so is a man fleeing away from his place.13
  9. ¶ Oil and incense14 are what make the heart rejoice, also the sweetness of one’s companion due to the counsel of the soul.15
  10. ¶ Do not leave your own companion or the companion of your father, and do not enter the house of your own brother on the day of your disaster. Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother that is far away.16
  11. ¶ Be wise, my son, and make my heart rejoice,17 that I may make a reply to him that is taunting me.18
  12. ¶ The shrewd one that has seen the calamity has concealed himself;19 the inexperienced that have passed along have suffered the penalty.20
  13. ¶ Take one’s garment, in case one has gone surety for a stranger;21 and in the instance of a foreign woman, seize from him a pledge.22
  14. ¶ He that is blessing his fellowman with a loud voice early in the morning, as a malediction it will be accounted on his part.23
  15. ¶ A leaking roof that drives one away in the day of a steady rain and a contentious wife are comparable.24
  16. Anyone sheltering her has sheltered the wind, and oil is what his right hand encounters.[c]
  17. ¶ By iron, iron itself is sharpened. So one man[d] sharpens the face of another.[e]25
  18. ¶ He that is safeguarding the fig tree will himself eat its fruit,26 and he that is guarding his master[f] will be honored.27
  19. ¶ As in water face corresponds with face, so the heart of a man[g] with [that of] a man.
  20. ¶ Sheʹol and [the place of] destruction[h]28 themselves do not get satisfied;29 neither do the eyes of a man get satisfied.30
  21. ¶ The refining pot is for silver,31 and the furnace is for gold;32 and an individual is according to his praise.33
  22. ¶ Even if you should pound the foolish one fine with a pestle in a mortar, in among cracked grain, his foolishness will not depart from him.34
  23. ¶ You ought to know positively the appearance of your flock. Set your heart to your droves;35
  24. for treasure will not be to time indefinite,36 nor a diadem for all generations.
  25. ¶ The green grass has departed, and the new grass has appeared, and the vegetation of the mountains has been gathered.37
  26. The young rams are for your clothing,38 and the he-goats are the price of the field.
  27. And there is a sufficiency of goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household, and the means39 of life for your girls.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “friend.” Heb., ʼoh·hevʹ.
  2. ^ Possibly, “are excessive”; or, “are corrupted,” by corrections of M.
  3. ^ Or, “and the oil of his right hand calls out (betrays itself).”
  4. ^ “So one man.” Heb., weʼishʹ.
  5. ^ So this vs may read by slight changes of vowel pointing of M, to agree with TLXXSyVg.
  6. ^ “His master.” Heb., ʼadho·navʹ, pl. of ʼa·dhohnʹ, to denote excellence.
  7. ^ Lit., “so the heart of the earthling man.” Heb., ken lev-ha·ʼa·dhamʹ.
  8. ^ “And [the place of] destruction.” Heb., wa·ʼavad·dohʹ, “Abaddon.” Compare Job 26:6 ftn.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Is 56:12; Lu 12:19; Jm 4:13
  2. ^ Jm 4:14
  3. ^ Pr 25:27; Je 9:23; 2Co 10:12, 18; 12:11
  4. ^ Jb 6:3
  5. ^ 1Sa 25:25
  6. ^ Jm 1:20
  7. ^ Ge 37:11; Pr 14:30; Ac 17:5; Jm 3:14
  8. ^ Le 19:17; Mt 18:15
  9. ^ 2Sa 12:7; Ps 141:5; Re 3:19
  10. ^ Ge 33:4
  11. ^ Lu 15:16
  12. ^ Is 16:2
  13. ^ Ge 4:16; Ex 2:15; 1Sa 27:1; 1Ki 19:8
  14. ^ Ps 45:8; Sg 3:6; 4:10; Jn 12:3
  15. ^ 1Sa 23:16; Pr 15:23; 16:24; Ac 28:15
  16. ^ Pr 17:17; 18:24; Mt 12:49
  17. ^ Pr 10:1; 15:20; 23:15; Zp 3:17; 2Jo 4
  18. ^ Jb 1:8, 9; Ps 127:5
  19. ^ Ex 9:20; Ps 57:1; Pr 18:10; Is 26:20; Heb 6:18; 11:7
  20. ^ Pr 22:3; 2Pe 3:7
  21. ^ Pr 20:16
  22. ^ Ge 38:18; Ec 7:26
  23. ^ 1Th 2:5
  24. ^ Pr 19:13; 21:9
  25. ^ 1Sa 23:16; Pr 5:1; Heb 10:24; 12:12
  26. ^ Pr 13:4; 1Co 9:7
  27. ^ Ge 39:2; 2Sa 23:23; Pr 17:2
  28. ^ Ps 88:11
  29. ^ Pr 30:16; Hab 2:5
  30. ^ Ec 1:8
  31. ^ Ps 12:6; 66:10
  32. ^ Pr 17:3
  33. ^ 1Sa 16:18; 18:7
  34. ^ Pr 23:35
  35. ^ Ge 39:3; Pr 10:4; 12:27; Col 3:23
  36. ^ Pr 23:5; 1Ti 6:17; Jm 1:10
  37. ^ Ps 72:16; 104:14
  38. ^ Jb 31:20
  39. ^ Ps 62:10

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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