  THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON
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  27:1  Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day 
        may bring forth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  27:25  The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and 
         herbs of the mountains are gathered.

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

  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.




