Proverbs 27

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• 1. Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
• 2. Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.
• 3. Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but provocation by a fool is heavier than both.
• 4. Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
• 5. Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
• 6. Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
• 7. He who is full loathes honey, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.
• 8. Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.
• 9. Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel.
• 10. Do not forsake your friend and the friend of your father, and do not go to your brother's house when disaster strikes you- better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
• 11. Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart; then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt.
• 12. The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
• 13. Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman.
• 14. If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
• 15. A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day;
• 16. restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.
• 17. As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
• 18. He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.
• 19. As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.
• 20. Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are the eyes of man.
• 21. The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but man is tested by the praise he receives.
• 22. Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him.
• 23. Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds;
• 24. for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.
• 25. When the hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered in,
• 26. the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.
• 27. You will have plenty of goats' milk to feed you and your family and to nourish your servant girls.

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