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| 27:1 |
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
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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 is able to stand before jealousy?
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| 27:5 |
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
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| 27:6 |
Well meant are the wounds a friend inflicts, but profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
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| 27:7 |
The sated appetite spurns honey, but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet.
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| 27:8 |
Like a bird that strays from its nest is one who strays from home.
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| 27:9 |
Perfume and incense make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble.
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| 27:10 |
Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent; do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is nearby than kindred who are far away.
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| 27:11 |
Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer whoever reproaches me.
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| 27:12 |
The clever see danger and hide; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
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| 27:13 |
Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.
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| 27:14 |
Whoever blesses a 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 wife are alike;
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| 27:16 |
to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in the right hand.
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| 27:17 |
Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens the wits of another.
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| 27:18 |
Anyone who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and anyone who takes care of a master will be honored.
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| 27:19 |
Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another.
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| 27:20 |
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and human eyes are never satisfied.
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| 27:21 |
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, so a person is tested by being praised.
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| 27:22 |
Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, but the folly will not be driven out.
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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 forever, nor a crown for all generations.
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| 27:25 |
When the grass is gone, and 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 nourishment for your servant-girls.
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