Do Not Boast about Tomorrow
Proverbs 27:27
In 11 translations
- BSB
- You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you— food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
- KJV
- And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.maintenance: Heb. life
- WEB
- There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.
- ASV
- And there will be goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, And maintenance for thy maidens.
- LSV
- And a sufficiency of goats’ milk [is] for your bread, || For bread to your house, and life to your girls!
- YLT
- And a sufficiency of goats' milk [is] for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!
- DBY
- and there is goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and sustenance for thy maidens.
- DRC
- Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the necessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids.
- GNV
- And let the milke of the goates be sufficient for thy foode, for the foode of thy familie, and for the sustenance of thy maydes.
- JPS
- And there will be goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household; and maintenance for thy maidens.
- LXXE
- My son, thou hast from me words very useful for thy life, and for the life of thy servants.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְדֵ֤י ׀ חֲלֵ֬ב עִזִּ֗ים לְֽ֭לַחְמְךָ לְלֶ֣חֶם בֵּיתֶ֑ךָ וְ֝חַיִּ֗ים לְנַעֲרוֹתֶֽיךָ׃
- LXX-Br
- Υἱὲ, παρʼ ἐμοῦ ἔχεις ῥήσεις ἰσχυρὰς εἰς τὴν ζωήν σου, καὶ εἰς τὴν ζωὴν σῶν θεραπόντων.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
- Proverbs 30:8–9Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion. Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become…
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