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Proverbs

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Chapter 27

1Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. 2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. 3A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but a fool's vexation is heavier than both. 4Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? 5Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy. 7One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry every bitter thing is sweet. 8Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home. 9Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. 10Your friend and your father's friend do not forsake, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away. 11Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may make answer to him who taunts me. 12The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. 13Take his garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts it up for an adulteress. 14Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing him. 15A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; 16to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one's right hand. 17Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. 18Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored. 19As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects man. 20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man. 21The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, and a man is tested by his praise. 22Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him. 23Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds, 24for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations? 25When the grass is gone and new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered, 26the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field. 27There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your maidens.

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