Proverbs 27:1
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New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do not know what a day may bring forth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Do not brag about tomorrow, because you do not know what another day may bring.

King James Bible
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Chapter 27

Verse 1

Here is, 1. A good caution against presuming upon time to come: Boast not thyself, no, not of to-morrow, much less of many days or years to come. This does not forbid preparing for to-morrow, but presuming upon to-morrow. We must not promise ourselves the continuance of our lives and comforts till to-morrow, but speak of it with submission to the will of God and as those who with good reason are kept at uncertainty about it. We must not take thought for the morrow (Mt. 6:34), but we must cast our care concerning it upon God. See James 4:13-15. We must not put off the great work of conversion, that one thing needful, till to-morrow, as if we were sure of it, but to-day, while it is called to-day, hear God's voice. 2. A good consideration, upon which this caution is grounded: We know not what a day may bring forth, what event may be in the teeming womb, of time; it is a secret till it is born, Eccl. 11:5. A little time may produce considerable changes, and such as we little think of. We know not what the present day may bring forth; the evening must commend it. Nescis quid serus vesper vehat-Thou knowest not what the close of evening may bring with it. God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events, and reserved to himself the knowledge of them, as a flower of the crown, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event, Acts 1:7.

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