| 章 |
| 27:1 |
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
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| 27:2 |
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
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| 27:3 |
A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both.
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| 27:4 |
Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?
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| 27:5 |
Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.
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| 27:6 |
Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.
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| 27:7 |
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
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| 27:8 |
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place.
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| 27:9 |
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
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| 27:10 |
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: [for] better [is] a neighbour [that is] near than a brother far off.
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| 27:11 |
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
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| 27:12 |
A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished.
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| 27:13 |
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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| 27:14 |
He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
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| 27:15 |
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
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| 27:16 |
Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].
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| 27:17 |
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
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| 27:18 |
Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
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| 27:19 |
As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.
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| 27:20 |
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
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| 27:21 |
[As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise.
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| 27:22 |
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.
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| 27:23 |
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
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| 27:24 |
For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?
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| 27:25 |
The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
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| 27:26 |
The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.
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| 27:27 |
And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.
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