Proverbs 27:1
Good News Translation
Never boast about tomorrow. You don't know what will happen between now and then.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

Contemporary English Version
Don't brag about tomorrow! Each day brings its own surprises.

New American Bible
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what any day may bring forth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.

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Psalm 95:7 For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

Isaiah 56:12 Come, let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness: and it shall be as to day, so also to morrow, and much more.

Luke 12:19,20 And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:2 For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time: behold, now is the day of salvation.

James 4:13-16 But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain. . . .

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1 Samuel 28:19 And the Lord also will deliver Israel with thee into the hands of the Philistines: and to morrow thou and thy sons shall be with me: and the Lord will also deliver the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.

Context
Do not Boast about Tomorrow
1Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.2Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.…
Cross References
Luke 12:19
And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer.

Luke 12:20
But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

James 4:13
But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain.

James 4:14
Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

1 Kings 20:11
And the king of Israel answering, said: Tell him: Let not the girded boast himself as the ungirded.

Proverbs 26:28
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