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27:1 Do not <0408> boast <01984> about tomorrow <04279>; for <03588> you do not <03808> know <03045> what <04100> a day <03117> may bring forth <03205>. 27:2 Let another <02114> praise <01984> you, and not <03808> your own mouth <06310>; someone else <05237>, and not <0408> your own lips <08193>. 27:3 A stone <068> is heavy <03514> and sand <02344> is weighty <05192>, but vexation <03708> by a fool <0191> is more burdensome <03515> than the two <08147> of them. 27:4 Wrath <02534> is cruel <0395> and anger <0639> is overwhelming <07858>, but who <04310> can stand <05975> before <06440> jealousy <07068>? 27:5 Better <02896> is open <01540> rebuke <08433> than hidden <05641> love <0160>. 27:6 Faithful <0539> are the wounds <06482> of a friend <0157>, but the kisses <05390> of an enemy <08130> are excessive <06280>. 27:7 The one whose appetite <05315> is satisfied <07649> loathes <0947> honey <05317>, but to the hungry <07457> mouth <05315> every <03605> bitter thing <04751> is sweet <04966>. 27:8 Like a bird <06833> that wanders <05074> from <04480> its nest <07064>, so <03651> is a person <0376> who wanders <05074> from his home <04725>. 27:9 Ointment <08081> and incense <07004> make <08055> the heart <03820> rejoice <08055>, likewise the sweetness <04986> of one’s friend <07453> from sincere <05315> counsel <06098>. 27:10 Do not <0408> forsake <05800> your friend <07463> and your father’s <01> friend <07453>, and do not <0408> enter <0935> your brother’s <0251> house <01004> in the day <03117> of your disaster <0343>; a neighbor <07934> nearby <07138> is better <02896> than a brother <0251> far away <07350>. 27:11 Be wise <02449>, my son <01121>, and make <08056> my heart <03820> glad <08056>, so that I may answer <01697> <07725> anyone who taunts <02778> me. 27:12 A shrewd <06175> person sees <07200> danger <07451> and hides <05641> himself, but the naive <06612> keep right on going <05674> and suffer <06064> for it. 27:13 Take <03947> a man’s garment <0899> when he has given security <06148> for a stranger <02114>, and when he gives surety for <01157> a stranger <05237>, hold him in pledge <02254>. 27:14 If someone blesses <01288> his neighbor <07453> with a loud <01419> voice <06963> early <07925> in the morning <01242>, it will be counted <02803> as a curse <07045> to him. 27:15 A continual <02956> dripping <01812> on a rainy <05464> day <03117> and a contentious <04066> wife <0802> are alike <07737>. 27:16 Whoever hides <06845> her hides <06845> the wind <07307> or grasps <07121> oil <08081> with his right hand <03225>. 27:17 As iron <01270> sharpens <02300> iron <01270>, so a person <0376> sharpens <02300> his friend <07453>. 27:18 The one who tends <05341> a fig tree <08384> will eat <0398> its fruit <06529>, and whoever takes care <08104> of his master <0113> will be honored <03513>. 27:19 As in water <04325> the face <06440> is reflected as a face <06440>, so <03651> a person’s <0120> heart <03820> reflects the person <0120>. 27:20 As Death <07585> and Destruction <010> are never <03808> satisfied <07646>, so the eyes <05869> of a person <0120> are never <03808> satisfied <07646>. 27:21 As the crucible <04715> is for silver <03701> and the furnace <03564> is for gold <02091>, so a person <0376> is proved by the praise <04110> he receives. 27:22 If <0518> you should pound <03806> the fool <0191> in the mortar <04388> among <08432> the grain <07383> with the pestle <05940>, his foolishness <0200> would not <03808> depart <05493> from <05921> him. 27:23 Pay careful attention <03045> <03045> to the condition <06440> of your flocks <06629>, give <07896> careful attention <03820> to your herds <05739>, 27:24 for <03588> riches <02633> do not <03808> last forever <05769>, nor <0518> does a crown <05145> last from generation <01755> to generation <01755>.

• Pro 25:1--29:27 -- Proverbs of Solomon Collected by Hezekiah

• PROVERB

  [isbe] PROVERB - prov'-erb (mashal, chidhah; parabole (Lk 4:23), paroimia (Jn 16:25,29)): I. FOLK MEANING AND USE 1. The Primitive Sense 2. The Communal Origin 3. Animus of Proverbs II. LITERARY DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROVERB 1. Discov...
  

• Loan

  [ebd] The Mosaic law required that when an Israelite needed to borrow, what he asked was to be freely lent to him, and no interest was to be charged, although interest might be taken of a foreigner (Ex. 22:25; Deut. 23:19, 20; Lev...
  

• House

  [ebd] Till their sojourn in Egypt the Hebrews dwelt in tents. They then for the first time inhabited cities (Gen. 47:3; Ex. 12:7; Heb. 11:9). From the earliest times the Assyrians and the Canaanites were builders of cities. The He...
  

• Furnace

  [ebd] (1.) Chald. attun, a large furnace with a wide open mouth, at the top of which materials were cast in (Dan. 3:22, 23; comp. Jer. 29:22). This furnace would be in constant requisition, for the Babylonians disposed of their de...
  

• Friendship

  [nave] FRIENDSHIP. Deut. 13:6-9; Job 6:14, 15; Job 16:2, 20; Job 19:13-22; Psa. 35:13, 14; Psa. 41:9; Psa. 55:12-14; Psa. 88:8, 18; Prov. 11:13; Prov. 17:9, 17; Prov. 18:24; Prov. 22:24-27; Prov. 25:17, 19; Prov. 27:6, 9, 10, 14, ...
  

• Fining pot

  [ebd] a crucible, melting-pot (Prov. 17:3; 27:21).
  

• ENEMY

  [isbe] ENEMY - en'-e-mi ('oyebh, tsar, tsar; echthros): "Enemy," "enemies," are frequent words in the Old Testament. The Hebrew word most often so translated is 'oyebh, meaning perhaps literally, "one who hates"; very frequent in t...
  

• DROP, DROPPING

  [isbe] DROP, DROPPING - "To drop" expresses a "distilling" or "dripping" of a fluid (Jdg 5:4; Prov 3:20; Song 5:5,13; Joel 3:18; Am 9:13; compare 1 Sam 14:26, "the honey dropped" (margin "a stream of honey")); Job 29:22 and Isa 45:...
  

• DILIGENCE; DILIGENT; DILIGENTLY

  [isbe] DILIGENCE; DILIGENT; DILIGENTLY - dil'-i-jens, dil'-i-jent-li: This word is used in various senses in our English Bibles. 1. In the Old Testament: In Ezr 5:8, "with diligence" means "with care"; in Ezr 6:12; 7:17, "with spee...
  

• DEATH

  [isbe] DEATH - (maweth; thanatos): PHYSIOLOGICAL AND FIGURATIVE VIEW The word "Death" is used in the sense of (1) the process of dying (Gen 21:16); (2) the period of decease (Gen 27:7); (3) as a possible synonym for poison (2 Ki 4:...
  

• CROWN

  [isbe] CROWN - kroun: The word crown in the Old Testament is a translation of five different Hebrew words, and in the New Testament of two Greek words. These express the several meanings, and must be examined to ascertain the same....
  

• COUNTENANCE

  [isbe] COUNTENANCE - koun'-te-nans: (1) The noun (see also under the word FACE) is the translation of a variety of Hebrew and Greek expressions, panim; prosopon, being the most frequent. Besides these there are found mar'eh, "appea...
  

• CATTLE

  [isbe] CATTLE - kat'-'-l (behemah, "a dumb beast"; miqneh, "a possession" from qanah, "to acquire" (compare Arabic qana', "to acquire," and Greek kienos, "beast," and plural ktenea, "flocks," from ktaomai, "to acquire," flocks bein...
  

• CALAMITY

  [isbe] CALAMITY - ka-lam'-i-ti ('edh, "a load" or "burden" under which one is crushed, hence, "misfortune"; hayyah, hawwah, "fall," "ruin," the latter word used only in the plural; ra`, "evil in essence" hence, "adversity," once on...
  

• Bewray

  [ebd] to reveal or disclose; an old English word equivalent to "betray" (Prov. 27:16; 29:24, R.V., "uttereth;" Isa. 16:3; Matt. 26:73).
  

• BRING

  [isbe] BRING - dasha' = "to sprout," "spring" (Gen 1:11 the King James Version); sharats = "to wriggle," "swarm" (Gen 1:20 f; 9:7; Ex 8:3); yaladh = "to bear," "beget" (Gen 3:16; 2 Ki 19:3; Job 15:35; 39:1,2; "what a day may bring ...
  

• BRAY

  [isbe] BRAY - bra (nahaq, "to bray," of the ass; kathash, "to pound in a mortar"): This word occurs with two distinct meanings: (a) The harsh cry of the ass (Job 6:5). Job argued that as the sounds instinctively uttered by animals ...
  

• BITTER; BITTERNESS

  [isbe] BITTER; BITTERNESS - bit'-er, bit'-er-nes (mar, or marah = "bitter" (literally or figuratively); also (noun) "bitterness" or (adverb) "bitterly"; "angry," "chafed," "discontented," "heavy" (Gen 27:34; Ex 15:23; Nu 5:18,19,23...
  

• BEWRAY; BEWRAYER

  [isbe] BEWRAY; BEWRAYER - be-ra', be-ra'-er: In its derivation is entirely different from betray (Latin, tradere), and meant originally "to disclose," "reveal" (compare Shakspere, Titus Andronicus, II, iv, 3: "Write down thy mind, ...
  

• ABADDON

  [ebd] destruction, the Hebrew name (equivalent to the Greek Apollyon, i.e., destroyer) of "the angel of the bottomless pit" (Rev. 9:11). It is rendered "destruction" in Job 28:22; 31:12; 26:6; Prov. 15:11; 27:20. In the last three...
  [isbe] ABADDON - a-bad'-on ('abhaddon, "ruin," "perdition," "destruction"): Though "destruction" is commonly used in translating 'abhaddon, the stem idea is intransitive rather than passive--the idea of perishing, going to ruin, be...
  

• A Friend Is Faithful

  

• Rebuke and Discipline

  

• [Pro 27:8] Return, O Wanderer, To Thy Home

  Return, O wanderer, to thy home, Thy Father calls for thee; No longer now an exile roam, In guilt and misery: Return, return! Too long the loathsome fields of sin Thy fruitless toil have known: No wholesome bread! no voice of kin! No home to call thine own! Return, return! Thy Father stands with outstretched hands, He gave His Son for thee: Poor soul, from sin’s enthralling bands He longs to see thee free. Return, return! Arise, stand up and homeward turn, No longer dwell apart; His mighty love will never spurn One humble contrite heart. Return, return! Our Father’s house is full of bliss, And there is room for all; He welcomes with forgiving kiss: O, hear His loving call! Return, return! The feast of joys awaits thee there, The precious robe and ring; O haste Thy Father’s gifts to share, O haste His praise to sing: Return, return!

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• Why la It Wrong to Harbor Angry Feelings?
  God forbids it (Ecc. 7:9; Matt. 5:22; Rom. 12:19); it is a characteristic of fools and a work of the flesh (Gal. 5:20; Prov. 12:16; Prov. 14:29; Prov. 27:3; Ecc. 7:9). Anger is connected with pride, cruelty, clamorous and evi...
• Why Is It Wrong to Harbor Angry Feelings?
  God forbids it (Ecc. 7:9; Matt. 5:22; Rom. 12:19); it is a characteristic of fools and a work of the flesh (Gal. 5:20; Prov. 12:16; Prov. 14:29; Prov. 27:3; Ecc. 7:9). Anger is connected with pride, cruelty, clamorous and evi...
• I know that we are to help our neighbors and when we lend, were are to give those in need what they need and want. But there is this woman who constantly expects me to do more than what I am already doing for her. What should I do?
  Thanks for your question. The trouble with servanthood (something all Christians are called to practice -- Galatians 5:13; Philippians 2:5-8) is that people begin to treat you like a servant. Every spiritual gift has its...
• Does the Bible speak more about Hell than Heaven?
  I've heard and read the same statement a number of times, but have never troubled myself to look up each passage. I'm not surprised that looking up "heaven" and "hell" in a concordance would give you contradictory results. T...

James 4:13-14; Frivolity

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