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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_021_PRO_27_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_021_PRO_27_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cebb4ce --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_021_PRO_27_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Proverbs. +Chapter 27. +Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be. +Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips. +A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these. +Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy? +Better is open protest than love kept secret. +The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false. +The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet. +Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station. +Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul. +Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off. +My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame. +The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble. +Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men. +He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse. +Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman. +He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith. +Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend. +Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured. +Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another. +The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough. +The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for. +Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him. +Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds; +For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations. +The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in. +The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field: +There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls. |