Proverbs · Literal Standard Version
Proverbs 27 Literal Standard Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 Do not boast about tomorrow, || For you do not know what a day brings forth.
1 NO te jactes del día de mañana; porque no sabes qué dará de sí el día.
2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth, || A stranger, and not your own lips.
2 Alábete el extraño, y no tu boca; el ajeno, y no tus labios.
3 A stone [is] heavy, and the sand [is] heavy, || And the anger of a fool || Is heavier than them both.
3 Pesada es la piedra, y la arena pesa; mas la ira del necio es más pesada que ambas cosas.
4 Fury [is] fierce, and anger [is] overflowing, || And who stands before jealousy?
4 Cruel es la ira, é impetuoso el furor; mas ¿quién parará delante de la envidia?
5 Better [is] open reproof than hidden love.
5 Mejor es reprensión manifiesta que amor oculto.
6 The wounds of a lover are faithful, || And the kisses of an enemy [are] abundant.
6 Fieles son las heridas del que ama; pero importunos los besos del que aborrece.
7 A satiated soul treads down a honeycomb, || And every bitter thing [is] sweet [to] a hungry soul.
7 El alma harta huella el panal de miel; mas al alma hambrienta todo lo amargo es dulce.
8 As a bird wandering from her nest, || So [is] a man wandering from his place.
8 Cual ave que se va de su nido, tal es el hombre que se va de su lugar.
9 Perfume and incense make the heart glad, || And the sweetness of one’s friend—from counsel of the soul.
9 El ungüento y el perfume alegran el corazón: y el amigo al hombre con el cordial consejo.
10 Do not forsake your own friend and the friend of your father, || And do not enter the house of your brother in a day of your calamity, || A near neighbor [is] better than a brother far off.
10 No dejes á tu amigo, ni al amigo de tu padre; ni entres en casa de tu hermano el día de tu aflicción: mejor es el vecino cerca que el hermano lejano.
11 Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, || And I return a word [to] my reproacher.
11 Sé sabio, hijo mío, y alegra mi corazón, y tendré qué responder al que me deshonrare.
12 The prudent has seen the evil, he is hidden, || The simple have passed on, they are punished.
12 El avisado ve el mal, [y] escóndese; [mas] los simples pasan, [y] llevan el daño.
13 Take his garment when a stranger has been guarantor, || And pledge it for a strange woman.
13 Quítale su ropa al que fió al extraño; y [al que fió] á la extraña, tómale prenda.
14 Whoever is greeting his friend with a loud voice, || Rising early in the morning, || It is reckoned a light thing to him.
14 El que bendice á su amigo en alta voz, madrugando de mañana, por maldición se le contará.
15 A continual dropping in a day of rain, || And a woman of contentions are alike,
15 Gotera continua en tiempo de lluvia, y la mujer rencillosa, son semejantes:
16 Whoever is hiding her has hidden the wind, || And the ointment of his right hand calls out.
16 El que pretende contenerla, arresta el viento: ó el aceite en su mano derecha.
17 Iron is sharpened by iron, || And a man sharpens the face of his friend.
17 Hierro con hierro se aguza; y el hombre aguza el rostro de su amigo.
18 The keeper of a fig tree eats its fruit, || And the preserver of his master is honored.
18 El que guarda la higuera, comerá su fruto; y el que guarda á su señor, será honrado.
19 As [in] water the face [is] to face, || So the heart of man to man.
19 Como un agua se parece á otra, así el corazón del hombre al otro.
20 Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, || And the eyes of man are not satisfied.
20 El sepulcro y la perdición nunca se hartan: así los ojos del hombre nunca están satisfechos.
21 A refining pot [is] for silver, and a furnace for gold, || And a man according to his praise.
21 El crisol [prueba] la plata, y la hornaza el oro: y al hombre la boca del que lo alaba.
22 If you beat the foolish in a mortar, || Among washed things—with a pestle, || His folly does not turn aside from off him.
22 Aunque majes al necio en un mortero entre granos de trigo á pisón majados, no se quitará de él su necedad.
23 Know the face of your flock well, || Set your heart to the droves,
23 Considera atentamente el aspecto de tus ovejas; pon tu corazón á tus rebaños:
24 For riches [are] not for all time, || Nor a crown to generation and generation.
24 Porque las riquezas no son para siempre; ¿y [será] la corona para perpetuas generaciones?
25 The hay was revealed, and the tender grass seen, || And the herbs of mountains gathered.
25 Saldrá la grama, aparecerá la hierba, y segaránse las hierbas de los montes.
26 Lambs [are] for your clothing, || And the price of the field [are] male goats,
26 Los corderos para tus vestidos, y los cabritos para el precio del campo:
27 And a sufficiency of goats’ milk [is] for your bread, || For bread to your house, and life to your girls!
27 Y abundancia de leche de las cabras para tu mantenimiento, y para mantenimiento de tu casa, y para sustento de tus criadas.
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)