--- title: "Proverbs 27 - Study King James Bible with henrys complete commentary on the bible" description: "Read Proverbs 27 with henrys complete commentary on the bible commentary. 1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible/proverbs/27" --- [ Read](/kjv/proverbs/27)[ Commentary](/study/proverbs/27)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/proverbs/27) Audio 1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.* 2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. 3 A stone *is* heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath *is* heavier than them both.* 4 Wrath *is* cruel, and anger *is* outrageous; but who *is* able to stand before envy?** 5 Open rebuke *is* better than secret love. 6 Faithful *are* the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy *are* deceitful.* 7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.* 8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so *is* a man that wandereth from his place. 9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so *doth* the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.* 10 Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: *for* better *is* a neighbour *that is* near than a brother far off. 11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. 12 A prudent *man* foreseeth the evil, *and* hideth himself; *but* the simple pass on, *and* are punished. 13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. 14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him. 15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. 16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, *which* bewrayeth *itself*. 17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. 18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. 19 As in water face *answereth* to face, so the heart of man to man. 20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.* 21 *As* the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so *is* a man to his praise. 22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, *yet* will not his foolishness depart from him. 23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, *and* look well to thy herds.* 24 For riches *are* not for ever: and doth the crown *endure* to every generation?** 25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. 26 The lambs *are* for thy clothing, and the goats *are* the price of the field. 27 And *thou shalt have* goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and *for* the maintenance for thy maidens.* [Proverbs 26](/study/proverbs/26) [Proverbs 28](/study/proverbs/28) ## Commentary To verse 1 1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Here is, 1. A good caution against presuming upon time to come: *Boast not thyself,* no, not *of to-morrow,* much less of many days or years to come. This does not forbid preparing for to-morrow, but presuming upon to-morrow. We must not promise ourselves the continuance of our lives and comforts till to-morrow, but speak of it with submission to the will of God and as those who with good reason are kept at uncertainty about it. We must not *take thought for the morrow* ([Matthew 6:34](/kjv/matthew/6/34)), but we must cast our care concerning it upon God. See [James 4:13-15](/kjv/james/4/13-15). We must not put off the great work of conversion, that one thing needful, till to-morrow, as if we were sure of it, *but to-day, while it is called to-day,* hear God's voice. 2. A good consideration, upon which this caution is grounded: *We know not what a day may bring forth,* what event may be in the teeming womb, of time; it is a secret till it is born, [Ecclesiastes 11:5](/kjv/ecclesiastes/11/5). A little time may produce considerable changes, and such as we little think of. We *know not what* the present *day may bring forth;* the evening must commend it. *Nescis quid serus vesper vehat--Thou knowest not what the close of evening may bring with it.* God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events, and reserved to himself the knowledge of them, as a flower of the crown, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event, [Acts 1:7](/kjv/acts/1/7). ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible/proverbs/27#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible/proverbs/27#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible/proverbs/27","name":"Proverbs 27 - Study King James Bible with henrys complete commentary on the bible","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible/proverbs/27#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Proverbs 27 with henrys complete commentary on the bible commentary. 1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible/proverbs/27#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible/proverbs/27"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible/proverbs/27#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","name":"Study Bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible","name":"henrys complete commentary on the bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible/proverbs","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible/proverbs","name":"Proverbs"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible/proverbs/27","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/henrys-complete-commentary-on-the-bible/proverbs/27","name":"27"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]} ```