" Keep a close watch on your HEART", Elder Dr. John E. Clay Jr., OH

Proverbs 27

1 BOAST** not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth: a stranger, and not thine own lips.
3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both. 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous, but who is able to stand before envy?
5 Open rebuke is better than secret love. 6 †Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
7 The full soul loatheth an honey-comb; but‡ to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel. 10 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.
11 ║My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself, but the simple pass on, and are punished.
13 *Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
15 ††A continual dropping in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike. 16 Whosoever hideth her, hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right-hand which bewrayeth itself.
17 Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

 

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old and New Testament: Translation (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2012), Pr 27.