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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 a burden, but provocation by a fool is heavier than both.
27:4  Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
27:5  Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
27:6  Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but excessive the kisses of an enemy.
27:7  One who is full loathes honeycomb, but to one who is hungry every bitter thing is sweet.
27:8  Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man that wanders from his home.
27:9  As ointment and perfume gladden the heart, so the sweetness of one’s friend comes from his sincere counsel.
27:10  Do not forsake your friend, or your father’s friend, nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster— better a neighbor nearby than a brother far off.
27:11  Be wise, my son, make my heart glad, so I may answer anyone who taunts me.
27:12  The prudent see danger and hide, but the naïve keep going and pay the penalty.
27:13  Take a man’s garment, who puts up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge, as security for a seductive woman.
27:14  If someone blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
27:15  Continual dripping on a day of steady rain and a contentious wife are alike—
27:16  hiding her is like hiding the wind or grasping oil with the right hand.
27:17  As iron sharpens iron, so a person sharpens the countenance of his friend.
27:18  Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, whoever takes care of his master will be honored.
27:19  As water reflects the face, so a person’s heart reflects the person.
27:20  Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and neither are the eyes of man.
27:21  A crucible is for silver and a furnace is for gold, but a person is proved by the praise he receives.
27:22  Even if you pound the fool along with the grain in a mortar with a pestle, his foolishness would never leave him.
27:23  Know well the condition of your flocks, pay attention to your herds,
27:24  for riches are not forever, nor a crown from generation to generation.
27:25  When hay is removed and grass appears, and grain from the hills is gathered in,
27:26  lambs will provide you with clothing, and goats with the price of a field.
27:27  There will be enough goats’ milk for food and food for your household, and sustenance for your maidservants.