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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 outraging, but who is able to stand before envy?
27:5  Open rebuke is better than secret love.
27:6  Faithful are the wounds from 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 wandereth from her nest, so is a man who wandereth from his place.
27:9  Ointment and perfume make the heart rejoice; so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by counsel from the heart.
27:10  Thine own friend and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go to thy brother’s house in the day of thy 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 reproacheth me.
27:12  A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.
27:13  Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, but take a pledge from him for a strange woman.
27:14  He that, rising early in the morning, blesseth his friend with a loud voice: it shall be counted as a curse to him.
27:15  A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
27:16  Whosoever would hide her would hide the wind, and the ointment of his right hand which betrayeth itself.
27:17  Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
27:18  Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof; so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored.
27:19  As in water face answereth 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 refining pot for silver and the furnace for gold, so is a man tried by praise.
27:22  Though thou shouldest grind a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
27:23  Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds,
27:24  for riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure to every generation?
27:25  The hay appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered;
27:26  the lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats pay the price of the field;
27:27  and thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food for thy household, and for the maintenance of thy maidens.