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