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In the group Pro 27:1-6 of this chapter every two proverbs form a pair. The first pair is directed against unseemly boasting:
1 Boast not thyself of to-morrow,
For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.
The ב of בְּיוֹם is like, e.g., that in Pro 25:14, the ב of the ground of boasting. One boasts of to-morrow when he boasts of that which he will then do and experience. This boasting is foolish and presumptuous (Luk 12:20), for the future is God's; not a moment of the future is in our own power, we know not what a day, this present day or to-morrow (Jam 4:13), will bring forth, i.e., (cf. Zep 2:2) will disclose, and cannot therefore order anything beforehand regarding it. Instead of לֹא־תֵדָע (with Kametz and Mugrash), אל־תדַע (thus e.g., the Cod. Jaman) is to be written; the Masora knows nothing of that pausal form. And instead of מַה־יֵּלֶד יֽוֹם, we write מַה יֵּלֶד יוֹם with Zinnorith. יֵּלֶד before יוֹם has the tone thrown back on the penult., and consequently a shortened ult.; the Masora reckons this word among the twenty-five words with only one Tsere.