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Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth (27:1)

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips (27:2)

A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both (27:3)

Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy? (27:4)

Open rebuke [is] better than secret love (27:5)

Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful (27:6)

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet (27:7)

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place (27:8)

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel (27:9)

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 (27:10)

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me (27:11)

A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished (27:12)

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman (27:13)

He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him (27:14)

A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike (27:15)

Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself] (27:16)

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend (27:17)

Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured (27:18)

As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man (27:19)

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied (27:20)

[As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise (27:21)

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him (27:22)

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds (27:23)

For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation? (27:24)

The hay appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered (27:25)

The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field (27:26)

And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens (27:27)

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