Proverbs 27:14
Good News Translation
You might as well curse your friends as wake them up early in the morning with a loud greeting.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever blesses a neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.

Contemporary English Version
A loud greeting early in the morning is the same as a curse.

New American Bible
Those who greet their neighbor with a loud voice in the early morning, a curse can be laid to their charge.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth.

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2 Samuel 15:2-7 And Absalom rising up early stood by the entrance of the gate, and when any man had business to come to the king's judgment, Absalom called him to him, and said: Of what city art thou? He answered, and said: Thy servant is of such tribe of Israel. . . .

2 Samuel 16:16-19 And when Chusai the Arachite, David's friend, was come to Absalom, he said to him: God save thee, O king, God save thee, O king. . . .

2 Samuel 17:7-13 And Chusai said to Absalom: The counsel that Achitophel hath given this time is not good. . . .

1 Kings 22:6,13 Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them: Shall I go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall I forbear? They answered: Go up, and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king. . . .

Jeremiah 28:2-4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. . . .

Acts 12:22,23 And the people made acclamation, saying: It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. . . .

Context
Do not Boast about Tomorrow
13Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers. 14He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth.15Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.…
Cross References
Psalm 12:2
They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.

Proverbs 27:15
Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.

Proverbs 27:13
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