Proverbs 27:2

Let another praise thee, and not thine own peh (mouth); 1 a nokhri (stranger), and not thine own sfatayim (lips). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

In Context

1Boast not thyself of yom makhar (tomorrow), 1 for thou hast no da'as of what a yom may bring forth. 1

3An even (stone) is heavy, and the chol (sand) weighty; 1 but a foolʼs wrath is heavier than them both. 1

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Cross References

Proverbs 20:6Rav adam will proclaim every one his own chesed, 1 but an ish emunim (faithful man, loyal man) who can find one? 1

2 Corinthians 10:12For we dare not to make a geder (classification) for ourselves or to compare ourselves with some of the ones commending themselves, + 10:12 2C 3:1; 5:12 but when they measure themselves by the standard of one another or compare themselves with one another, they do not show seichel.

2 Corinthians 12:11I have been a yold! You forced me. For I ought to be commended by you, for in nothing I was behind the most groise (eminent) Shlichim, + 12:11 2C 11:5 even if I am nothing.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:2

Miscellaneous Maxims. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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