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Do not congratulate yourself about tomorrow, since you do not know what today will bring forth.
27:2
Let someone else sing your praises, but not your own mouth, a stranger, but not your own lips.
27:3
Heavy is the stone, weighty is the sand; heavier than both -- a grudge borne by a fool.
27:4
Cruel is wrath, overwhelming is anger; but jealousy, who can withstand that?
27:5
Better open reproof than feigned love.
27:6
Trustworthy are blows from a friend, deceitful are kisses from a foe.
27:7
The gorged throat revolts at honey, the hungry throat finds all bitterness sweet.
27:8
Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is anyone who strays away from home.
27:9
Oil and perfume gladden the heart, and the sweetness of friendship rather than self-reliance.
27:10
Do not give up your friend or your father's friend; when trouble comes, do not go off to your brother's house, better a near neighbour than a distant brother.
27:11
Learn to be wise, my child, and gladden my heart, that I may have an answer for anyone who insults me.
27:12
The discreet sees danger and takes shelter, simpletons go ahead and pay the penalty.
27:13
Take the man's clothes! He has gone surety for a stranger. Take a pledge from him, for persons unknown.
27:14
Whoever at dawn loudly blesses his neighbour -- it will be reckoned to him as a curse.
27:15
The dripping of a gutter on a rainy day and a quarrelsome woman are alike;
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whoever can restrain her, can restrain the wind, and take a firm hold on grease.
27:17
Iron is sharpened by iron, one person is sharpened by contact with another.
27:18
Whoever tends the fig tree eats its figs, whoever looks after his master will be honoured.
27:19
As water reflects face back to face, so one human heart reflects another.
27:20
Sheol and Perdition are never satisfied, insatiable, too, are human eyes.
27:21
A furnace for silver, a foundry for gold: a person is worth what his reputation is worth.
27:22
Pound a fool in a mortar, among grain with a pestle, his folly will not leave him.
27:23
Know your flocks' condition well, take good care of your herds;
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for riches do not last for ever, crowns do not hand themselves on from age to age.
27:25
The grass once gone, the aftergrowth appearing, the hay gathered in from the mountains,
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you should have lambs to clothe you, goats to buy you a field,
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goat's milk sufficient to feed you, to feed your household and provide for your serving girls.
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