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Proverbs 27

for you do not know what the day will bring.
2  a stranger and not your own lips.
3 is a stone and weighty is sand, but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
4 is wrath and overwhelming is anger, but who will stand before jealousy?
5  than a love that is hidden.
6  but the kisses of an enemy are profane.
7 [fn] that is sated spurns honey, but to an[fn] that is ravenous, all bitterness is sweet.
8  so is a man who strays from his place.
9  and the pleasantness of one’s friend is[fn]
10 them, and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity.
Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.
11  and I will answer him who reproaches me with a word.
12 When the clever sees danger, he hides; the simple go on and suffer.
13 to a stranger, and to[fn]— so take his pledge.
14  early in the morning,
a curse will be reckoned to him.
15  and a woman[fn] of contention are alike.
16 In restraining her, he restrains wind,[fn] and his right hand will grasp oil[fn].
17 As iron sharpens[fn] iron, so[fn]
18  and he who guards his master[fn] will be honored.
19 reflect[fn] so the heart of a person reflects the person.
20 [fn] and Abaddon[fn] will not be satisfied, and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied either.
21 is for the silver, and a furnace for the gold, but a man is tested by the mouth of him who praises him.
22 [fn] the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him.
23 [fn] of your flock; your heart[fn] attends to the herds.
24 are not forever, nor a crown for generation after generation.
25  and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered.
26 will be your clothing, and goats the price of the field.
27 there will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and the[fn] of your maidservants.

27:? Literally “soul”

27:? Literally “because of advice of a person”

27:? Literally “a foreign woman”

27:? Or “wife”

27:? Or “breath, or “spirit”

27:? Or “fat”

27:? Or “is united with”

27:? Literally “a man sharpens the faces of his friend”

27:? Or “lord”

27:? Literally “the faces to the faces”

27:? A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld

27:? Poetic synonym for “Sheol.” Only mentioned in the ot in relation to Sheol, the grave, or death.

27:? Or “in the midst of”

27:? Literally “faces”

27:? Or “mind”

27:? Literally “life”

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Proverbs 27