Proverbs 27:1 (WEB)
Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.
Fathers and councils · 2
Theodoret of Cyrus
“I have seen many who have come thence, and I have felt afraid, for I know not, as the Scripture says, “what the morrow will bring forth.”” — editor's note: Prov. xxvii. 1
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For if, as it seems to me as well as to Solomon, we must “judge none blessed before his death,” and it is uncertain “what a day may bring forth,” since our life here below has many turnings, and the body of our humiliation is ever rising, falling and changing; surely he, who without fault has almost…” — editor's note: Prov. xxvii. 1.
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