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27:1  Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know 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 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 who 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 your own friend or your father’s friend, nor go into your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; for better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far off.
27:11  My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who 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 security for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for an adulterous woman.
27:14  He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it will be counted a curse to him.
27:15  A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
27:16  whoever restrains her restrains the wind, and grasps oil in his right hand.
27:17  Iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
27:18  Whoever keeps the fig tree will eat its fruit; so he who waits on his master will be honored.
27:19  As in water face answers to face, so the heart of man to man.
27:20  Death 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 to his praise.
27:22  Though you should grind a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
27:23  Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds;
27:24  for riches are not forever, nor 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  You will have goats’ milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance of your maidens.