SLT PRO Chapter 27

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27 Thou shalt not boast upon the day of the morrow, for thou shalt not know what a day shall bring forth. 2 A stranger shall praise thee, and not thy mouth; a stranger, and not thy lips. 3 A stone is heavy and sand a burden, and the wrath of the foolish one heavy more than they two. 4 Wrath is cruelty, and anger an overflowing; and who shall stand before jealousy? 5 Naked rebuke is good above secret love. 6 Faithful the wounds of a friend; and abundant the kisses of an enemy. 7 The full soul will tread down the honey droppings, and to the hungry soul all bitter is sweet. 8 As the bird wandering from her nest, so is a man wandering from his place. 9 Oil and incense will rejoice the heart: and the sweetness from his friend from the counsel of the soul. 10 Thy friend and thy father’s friend thou shalt not forsake; and thou shalt not go to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: good he dwelling near, more than a brother far off. 11 My son, be wise and gladden my heart, and I will turn back word to him reproaching me. 12 The prudent one saw the evil, he hid himself; the simple passed and were punished. 13 Take his garment pledging a stranger, and bind him by a pledge for a strange woman. 14 He blessing his friend with a great voice, rising early in the morning, a curse shall be reckoned to him. 15 A dropping thrust forth in the day of rain and a woman of strifes were alike. 16 He hiding her, hid the wind, and he shall call the oil of his right hand. 17 Iron will sharpen upon iron; and a man will sharpen the face of his friend. 18 He guarding the fig tree shall eat its fruit: and he watching his lord shall be honored. 19 As in water, face to face, so the heart of man to man. 20 Hades and destruction shall not be satisfied; and the eyes of man shall not be satisfied. 21 The crucible for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man to the mouth praising him. 22 If thou shalt pound the foolish in a mortar in the midst of the grain with a pestle, thou shalt not remove from him his folly. 23 Knowing, thou shalt know the face of thy flock; set thy heart to thy herds. 24 For not strength forever, and not consecration to generation and generation. 25 The grass was uncovered and the young herbage was seen; and the green plants of the mountains were gathered. 26 Lambs for thy clothing, and the he goats the price of the field. 27 And enough of goats milk for thy bread, and for the bread of thy house, and the life of thy girls.

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