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{Proverbs 27:1} Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

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

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

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

{Proverbs 27:5} Open rebuke [is] better than secret love. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

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

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

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

{Proverbs 27:9} Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

{Proverbs 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.

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