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Proverbs - Chapter 27

Pro 27:1	¶	Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Pro 27:2		Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Pro 27:3		A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both.
Pro 27:4		Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?
Pro 27:5		Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.
Pro 27:6		Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.
Pro 27:7		The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Pro 27:8		As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place.
Pro 27:9		Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Pro 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.
Pro 27:11		My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
Pro 27:12		A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished.
Pro 27:13		Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Pro 27:14		He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
Pro 27:15		A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Pro 27:16		Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].
Pro 27:17		Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Pro 27:18		Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
Pro 27:19		As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.
Pro 27:20		Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Pro 27:21		[As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise.
Pro 27:22		Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.
Pro 27:23	¶	Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
Pro 27:24		For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?
Pro 27:25		The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
Pro 27:26		The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.
Pro 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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