Proverbs 27

"Do not boast about tomorrow" (echoed in James 4:13-16). The value of honest friends: open rebuke over hidden love, the faithful wounds of a friend, iron sharpening iron, and a friend's counsel as "sweetness to the soul." Praise tests a person as fire tests gold. Mind your flocks, because riches don't last. Faithful attention to ordinary work feeds the household.

"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." (Proverbs 27:17)

"Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring." (Proverbs 27:1)