Charles Spurgeon Commentary Proverbs 27

Let us never boast of future days and years, or what we mean to do when we reach any age, or what shall be our position when we grow gray. Let us never boast of anything in the future, for we cannot tell what even a day may bring forth.

For he who praises himself writes himself down a fool in capital letters.

One might endure almost any sort of labour sooner than have to live with someone who is perpetually and foolishly angry.

Envy is a snake in the grass. Christians, beware of envy. You will, perhaps, be tempted to have it in your heart when you see another Christian more useful than you are, or when some Christian brother seems to have more honor than you have. Ah, then! cry to God against it. Never let this venomous reptile be spared for a single moment.

The best of men will find envy creeping over them at times; it may be envy of the wicked who are rich. We must seek to overcome that at once. And even envy of the best of men, what is it but covetousness and hatred, and a breach of two commandments?

God save us from it!

That I should love my fellow-man is a good thing; but to have enough love to openly rebuke his faults is a very strong proof of affection, and far better than secret love that is silent when it should speak. And yet, how many people there are who are very angry with you if you give them an open rebuke, and how many there are who are foolish enough to prefer secret love to open rebuke, though they have Solomon's wisdom to teach them better!

Our Lord Jesus Christ has a secret love for his people, yet he never spares them the open rebuke when he knows that it will be good for them.