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27:1  Boast not thyself of tomorrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
27:2  Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine 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 impetuous, 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 a 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  Do not forsake thine own friend and thy father’s friend, neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity, for better is a neighbour 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 hurt by it.
27:13  Take his garment that is surety for a stranger and take a pledge of him that is surety 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 dripping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
27:16  Whosoever hides her hides the wind, because the oil in his right hand cries out.
27:17  Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
27:18  Whosoever keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof, so he that waits on his master shall be honoured.
27:19  As in water face corresponds to face, so the heart of man to man.
27:20  Sheol and hell are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
27:21  As the fining pot tries the silver and the furnace the gold; so the man is tried by the mouth of whoever praises him.
27:22  Though thou should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
27:23  Be thou diligent to know the countenance of thy sheep, and put thy heart into thy herds.
27:24  For riches are not for ever, and does the crown endure to every generation?
27:25  The tender grass shows itself, and the hay appears, and the herbs of the mountains are reaped.
27:26  The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are for the price of the field.
27:27  And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance of thy maidens.