Top Verses from Proverbs 27  

The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. (NIV)

A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished [with suffering]. (AMP)

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. (KJV)

Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? (NIV)

Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, but who is able to stand before jealousy? (AMP)

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? (KJV)

If anyone loudly blesses a neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse. (NIV)

The flatterer who loudly praises and glorifies his neighbor, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted as cursing him [for he will be suspected of sinister purposes]. (AMP)

He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him. (KJV)

Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative's house when disaster strikes you – better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away. (NIV)

Your own friend and your father's friend, forsake them not; neither go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near [in spirit] than a brother who is far off [in heart]. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

Be wise, my child, and bring joy to my heart; then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt. (NIV)

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me [as having failed in my parental duty]. [Prov. 10:1; 23:15, 24.] (AMP)

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. (KJV)

The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but people are tested by their praise. (NIV)

As the refining pot for silver and the furnace for gold [bring forth all the impurities of the metal], so let a man be in his trial of praise [ridding himself of all that is base or insincere; for a man is judged by what he praises and of what he boasts]. (AMP)

Those who guard a fig tree will eat its fruit, and those who protect their masters will be honored. (NIV)

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit; so he who patiently and faithfully guards and heeds his master shall be honored. [I Cor. 9:7, 13.] (AMP)

Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. (KJV)

One who is full loathes honey from the comb, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet. (NIV)

He who is satiated [with sensual pleasures] loathes and treads underfoot a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. (AMP)

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. (KJV)

Though you grind fools in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them. (NIV)

Even though like grain you should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. (AMP)

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. (KJV)

Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both. (NIV)

Stone is heavy and sand weighty, but a fool's [unreasoning] wrath is heavier and more intolerable than both of them. (AMP)

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. (KJV)