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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.

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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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