Warnings and Instructions

27 (A)Do not boast about tomorrow,
For you (B)do not know what a day may bring.
Let (C)another praise you, and not your own mouth;
A stranger, and not your own lips.

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General Counsel

27 Never brag about the day to come,
because you don’t know what it[a] might bring.

Let someone else praise you,
    not your own mouth;
        a stranger, and never your own lips.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:1 Lit. what a day