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27:1  Boast not yourself of to morrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.
27:2  Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
27:3  A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
27:4  Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
27:5  Open rebuke is better than secret love.
27:6  Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
27:7  The full soul loathes an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
27:8  As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man that wanders from his place.
27:9  Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
27:10  Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
27:11  My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproaches me.
27:12  A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
27:13  Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
27:14  He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
27:15  A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
27:16  Whoever hides her hides the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which denudes itself.
27:17  Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
27:18  Whoever keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waits on his master shall be honored.
27:19  As in water face answers to face, so the heart of man to man.
27:20  Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
27:21  As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
27:22  Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
27:23  Be you diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.
27:24  For riches are not for ever: and does the crown endure to every generation?
27:25  The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
27:26  The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
27:27  And you shall have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidens.