Proverbs 27

27 ¹No dey boast about tomorrow, because you no know wetin one day fit bring. ²Make another person praise you, no be your own mouth; make stranger do am, no be your own lips. ³Stone heavy and sand na load, but di wahala wey foolish person dey cause heavy pass di two. ⁴Vex-vex dey wicked and anger dey overwhelm person, but who fit stand in front of jealousy? ⁵To correct person for open better pass love wey dey hide. ⁶Di wound wey friend give you na faithful wound, but di kiss wey enemy give you dey deceive. ⁷Person wey belle full dey step for honeycomb, but for person wey hungry, even bitter thing dey sweet. ⁸Man wey dey waka comot from im house be like bird wey dey waka comot from im nest. ⁹Oil and incense dey make heart happy, and di sweetness of friend dey come from advice wey comot from heart. ¹⁰No forsake your friend or your papa im friend, and no go your brother house wen trouble land; neighbour wey dey near better pass brother wey dey far. ¹¹My pikin, get sense, and make my heart happy, so that I fit answer anybody wey dey mock me. ¹²Person wey get sense dey see danger and hide, but simple person dey waka go, and dey pay for am. ¹³Collect di cloth of person wey stand guarantor for stranger; hold am as collateral wen e do so for foreign woman. ¹⁴Anybody wey bless im neighbour with loud voice early for morning, dem go take am as curse. ¹⁵Wife wey like to dey quarrel be like water wey dey drip drip for day wey rain dey fall. ¹⁶To hold am down be like to hold di wind down, or to grab oil with your right hand. ¹⁷Iron dey sharpen iron, and one person dey sharpen anoda person. ¹⁸Anybody wey dey take care of fig tree go chop di fruit, and anybody wey dey guard im master go get honour. ¹⁹As water dey show face, na so heart dey show di person. ²⁰Grave and Destruction no dey ever satisfy, and person eye no dey ever satisfy. ^a a v20 Sheol na di place of dead people; Abaddon na di place of destruction — together dem dey picture hunger wey no dey ever full. ²¹Dem dey use crucible test silver and furnace test gold, and dem dey test person by di praise wey e dey receive. ²²Even if you grind foolish person for mortar with pestle, together with di grain, im foolishness no go comot from am. ²³Sabi well-well how your flock dey, and pay careful attention to your herds. ²⁴Because riches no dey last forever, and crown no dey last reach every generation. ²⁵Wen di grass don finish and new grass don grow and dem don gather di herbs for mountain, ²⁶di lambs go give you cloth, and di goats go give you money to buy field; ²⁷and goat milk go plenty reach for your food, for di food of your household and to feed your servant girls.