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Do not boast about
atomorrow,
For you do not know what a day may bring forth.
Prov. 27
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27:2
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
A foreigner, and not your own lips.
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A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty,
But a fool’s vexation is heavier than both of them.
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Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming,
But who can stand before jealousy?
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Open arebuke is better
Than love that is hidden.
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27:6
Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But the
akisses of an enemy are profuse.
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The full soul loathes a honeycomb,
But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
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27:8
Like a bird that wanders from her nest,
So is a man who wanders from his place.
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27:9
Oil and perfume rejoice the heart;
So a man’s counsel is sweet to his friend.
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Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend
To go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity:
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.
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My son, be wise, and make my heart glad,
That I may answer him who reproaches me.
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aA prudent man sees evil
and hides himself;
But the simple pass on
and suffer punishment
for it.
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aTake the garment of him who is surety for a stranger,
And hold one in pledge
who is surety for a foreign woman.
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He who blesses his friend with a loud voice,
Arousing
him early in the morning,
It will be reckoned as a curse to him.
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27:15
A continual
adripping on a very rainy day
And a contentious woman are alike;
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He who would restrain her restrains the wind,
And grasps oil with his right hand.
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27:17
Iron sharpens iron;
So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
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Whoever tends a fig tree will
aeat its fruit,
And he who takes care of his master will be honored.
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As in water face
reflects face,
So the heart of man
reflects man.
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27:20
aSheol and
1Abaddon are never satisfied,
And the
beyes of man are never satisfied.
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aThe refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
And a man
is tried by the praise
given him.
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Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
His folly will not depart from him.
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Know well the condition of your flocks,
And pay attention to your herds —
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For riches are not forever,
Nor does a crown
endure from generation to generation —
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Then when the grass has disappeared, and the tender grass is seen,
And the herbs of the mountains have been gathered in,
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The lambs will be for your clothing,
And the goats
will bring the price of a field;
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And there will be goats’ milk enough for your food,
For the food of your household,
And
for the sustenance for your maidens.
