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27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. 27:2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth-- a stranger, and not your own lips. 27:3 A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both. 27:4 Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy? 27:5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 27:6 Well meant are the wounds a friend inflicts, but profuse are the kisses of an enemy. 27:7 The sated appetite spurns honey, but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet. 27:8 Like a bird that strays from its nest is one who strays from home. 27:9 Perfume and incense make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble. 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. 27:11 Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer whoever reproaches me. 27:12 The clever see danger and hide; but the simple go on, and suffer for it. 27:13 Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners. 27:14 Whoever blesses a neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing. 27:15 A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike; 27:16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in the right hand. 27:17 Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens the wits of another. 27:18 Anyone who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and anyone who takes care of a master will be honored. 27:19 Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another. 27:20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and human eyes are never satisfied. 27:21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, so a person is tested by being praised. 27:22 Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, but the folly will not be driven out. 27:23 Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds; 27:24 for riches do not last forever, nor a crown for all generations. 27:25 When the grass is gone, and new growth appears, and the herbage of the mountains is gathered, 27:26 the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field; 27:27 there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and nourishment for your servant-girls.