Proverbs · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Proverbs 27 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 Boast not for tomorrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.
1 Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.
2 Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.
2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
3 A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.
3 A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
4 Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
6 Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy.
6 The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
7 A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet.
7 A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.
8 As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.
9 Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.
9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
10 Thy own friend, and thy father’s friend forsake not: and go not into thy brother’s house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a neighbour that is near, than a brother afar off.
10 Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
11 Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.
11 Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.
12 The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.
12 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
13 Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.
13 Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!
14 He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth.
14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.
15 Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.
15 A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
16 He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call in the oil of his right hand.
16 restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.
17 Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
17 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
18 He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eat the fruit thereof: and he that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified.
18 Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.
19 As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so-the hearts of men are laid open to the wise.
19 Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.
20 Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.
20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.
21 As silver is tried in the fining-pot and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after knowledge.
21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.
22 Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.
22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
23 Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks:
23 Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds,
24 For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.
24 for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.
25 The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered out of the mountains.
25 The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.
26 Lambs are for thy clothing: and kids for the price of the field.
26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field.
27 Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the necessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids.
27 There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.
Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 James 4:13–16; Luke 12:19–20; 2 Corinthians 6:2; Isaiah 56:12; 1 Samuel 28:19
- 2 2 Corinthians 10:18; Proverbs 25:27; 2 Corinthians 10:12; 2 Corinthians 12:11
- 3 Daniel 3:19; 1 John 3:12; Proverbs 17:12; Genesis 49:7; 1 Samuel 22:18–19
- 4 Proverbs 6:34; Proverbs 14:30; James 3:14–16; Job 5:2; Matthew 27:18
- 5 Proverbs 28:23; 1 Timothy 5:20; Galatians 2:14; Matthew 18:15; Leviticus 19:17
- 6 Psalm 141:5; Revelation 3:19; Job 5:17–18; Proverbs 26:23–26; 2 Samuel 12:7–15
- 7 Luke 15:16–17; Numbers 21:5; Numbers 11:18–20; Numbers 11:4–9; John 6:9
- 8 Proverbs 21:16; Isaiah 16:2; Jonah 1:3; 1 Corinthians 7:20; Jonah 1:10–17
- 9 Proverbs 16:23–24; Proverbs 16:21; Psalm 23:5; Proverbs 15:23; Psalm 104:15
- 10 Proverbs 18:24; Proverbs 17:17; 1 Kings 12:6–8; Luke 10:30–37; Proverbs 19:7
- 11 Proverbs 10:1; Psalm 119:42; Proverbs 23:15–16; 2 John 4; Proverbs 23:24–25
- 12 Proverbs 22:3; Proverbs 18:10; Hebrews 11:7; 2 Peter 3:10–14; 2 Peter 3:7
- 13 Proverbs 20:16; Proverbs 6:1–4; Proverbs 22:26–27; Exodus 22:26
- 14 2 Samuel 16:16–19; Acts 12:22–23; Jeremiah 28:2–4; 1 Kings 22:13; 2 Samuel 15:2–7
- 15 Proverbs 21:9; Proverbs 19:13; Proverbs 21:19; Proverbs 25:24; Job 14:19
- 16 John 12:3
- 17 Hebrews 10:24; Proverbs 27:9; Job 4:3–4; 1 Samuel 23:16; Isaiah 35:3–4
- 18 1 Corinthians 9:7; 2 Timothy 2:6; Song of Songs 8:12; Luke 12:37; John 12:26
- 19 James 1:22–25; Psalm 33:15; Mark 7:21; Genesis 6:5
- 20 Ecclesiastes 1:8; 1 John 2:16; Proverbs 30:15–16; Ecclesiastes 6:7; Habakkuk 2:5
- 21 Proverbs 17:3; Zechariah 13:9; Psalm 66:10; Malachi 3:3; 1 Peter 1:7
- 22 Proverbs 23:35; Jeremiah 5:3; Isaiah 1:5; Revelation 16:10–11; Exodus 14:5
- 23 1 Peter 5:2; John 21:15–17; Genesis 33:13; 2 Chronicles 26:10; Proverbs 24:32
- 24 Proverbs 23:5; 1 Timothy 6:17–18; Zephaniah 1:18; James 1:10; Isaiah 9:7
- 25 Proverbs 10:5; Psalm 104:14
- 26 Job 31:20
- 27 Matthew 6:33; Proverbs 30:8–9
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Have pity, O Lord God, lest they who pass by trample on the unfledged bird; and send Thine angel, who may restore it to its nest that it may live until it can fly.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Hence it is written, "Let not thy own mouth praise thee, but let thy neighbor's" mouth praise thee. But this was said to man.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
There is a precept laid on man: "Let not thine own mouth praise thee, but the mouth of thy neighbor." For self-pleasing is a perilous thing for one who has to be on his guard against falling into pride.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)