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Chapter 27 | |
Boast
not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. | |
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. | |
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. | |
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? | |
| | Open rebuke is better than secret love. |
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. | |
| | The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. |
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. | |
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. | |
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. | |
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. | |
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. | |
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. | |
He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him. | |
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. | |
Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself. | |
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. | |
Whoso keepeth the fig tree
shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. | |
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. | |
| | Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. |
As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise. | |
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. | |
| | Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. |
For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? | |
The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. | |
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. | |
| | 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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