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27:1  Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what the day will bring.
27:2  May another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
27:3  Heavy is a stone and weighty is sand, but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
27:4  Cruel is wrath and overwhelming is anger, but who will stand before jealousy?
27:5  Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden.
27:6  The wounds of a friend mean well, but the kisses of an enemy are profane.
27:7  An appetite that is sated spurns honey, but to an appetite that is ravenous, all bitterness is sweet.
27:8  Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is a man who strays from his place.
27:9  Perfume and incense will gladden a heart, and the pleasantness of one’s friend is personal advice.
27:10  As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake them, and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.
27:11  Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, and I will answer him who reproaches me with a word.
27:12  When the clever sees danger, he hides; the simple go on and suffer.
27:13  Take his garment, for he gives surety to a stranger, and to an adulteress—so take his pledge.
27:14  He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, a curse will be reckoned to him.
27:15  Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain and a woman of contention are alike.
27:16  In restraining her, he restrains wind, and his right hand will grasp oil.
27:17  As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
27:18  He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
27:19  As the waters reflect face to face, so the heart of a person reflects the person.
27:20  Sheol and Abaddon will not be satisfied, and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied either.
27:21  A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace for the gold, but a man is tested by the mouth of him who praises him.
27:22  If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle along with the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him.
27:23  You will surely know the condition of your flock; your heart attends to the herds.
27:24  For riches are not forever, nor a crown for generation after generation.
27:25  When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear, and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered.
27:26  Lambs will be your clothing, and goats the price of the field.
27:27  And there will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and the nourishment of your maidservants.