---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Proverbs from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 27
verse_count: 27
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Proverbs, chap. 27, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Proverbs 27

**1** care. 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 a 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 wait-th 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 showeth 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.