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