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27:1  Don’t boast about tomorrow, for you don’t know what the day may bring.
27:2  Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
27:3  Stone is heavy and sand a dead weight, but a fool’s provocation outweighs them both.
27:4  Fury is cruel and anger overwhelming, but who can stand up to jealousy?
27:5  Better open rebuke than hidden love.
27:6  Wounds from a friend are received as well-meant, but an enemy’s kisses are insincere.
27:7  A person who is full loathes a honeycomb; but to the hungry, any bitter thing is sweet.
27:8  Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.
27:9  Perfume and incense make the heart glad, [also] friendship sweet with advice from the heart.
27:10  Don’t abandon a friend who is also a friend of your father. Don’t enter your brother’s house on the day of your calamity — better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
27:11  My son, become wise, and gladden my heart, so that I can answer my critics.
27:12  The clever see trouble coming and hide; the thoughtless go on and pay the penalty.
27:13  Seize his clothes because he guaranteed a stranger’s loan; take them as security for that unknown woman.
27:14  Whoever greets his neighbor in a loud voice at dawn might just as well have cursed him.
27:15  A leak that keeps dripping on a rainy day and the nagging of a wife are the same —
27:16  whoever can restrain her can restrain the wind or keep perfume on his hand from making itself known.
27:17  Just as iron sharpens iron, a person sharpens the character of his friend.
27:18  Whoever tends the fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who is attentive to his master will be honored.
27:19  Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another.
27:20  Sh’ol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and human eyes are never satisfied.
27:21  The crucible [tests] silver, and the furnace [tests] gold, but a person [is tested] by [his reaction to] praise.
27:22  You can crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle, along with the grain being crushed; yet his foolishness will not leave him.
27:23  Take care to know the condition of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds.
27:24  For wealth doesn’t last forever, neither does a crown through all generations.
27:25  When the hay has been mown, and the new grass appears, and the mountain greens have been gathered;
27:26  the lambs will provide your clothing, the goats will sell for enough to buy a field,
27:27  and there will be enough goat’s milk to [buy] food for you and your household and maintenance for your servant-girls.