Proverbs 27:2
Let someone else praise you and not your own mouth; 1 a stranger and not your own lips. 1
Unlocked Literal 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
1Do not boast about tomorrow, 1 for you do not know what a day may bring. 1
Cross References
Proverbs 20:6Many a person proclaims he is loyal, 1 but who can find one who is faithful? 1
2 Corinthians 10:12We do not go so far as to group ourselves or compare ourselves with those who praise themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with each other, they have no insight.
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become a fool! You forced me to this, for I should have been praised by you. For I was not at all inferior to the so-called super-apostles, even though 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 →