King James Bible

Proverbs 26

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Chapter 27

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  Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.  

 

 

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  Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.  

 

 

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  A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both.  

 

 

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  Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?  

 

 

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  Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.  

 

 

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  Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.  

 

 

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  The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.  

 

 

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  As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place.  

 

 

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  Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.  

 

 

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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.  

 

 

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  My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.  

 

 

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12


 

  A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished.  

 

 

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13


 

  Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.  

 

 

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  He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.  

 

 

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  A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.  

 

 

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  Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].  

 

 

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17


 

  Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.  

 

 

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18


 

  Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.  

 

 

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19


 

  As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.  

 

 

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  Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.  

 

 

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21


 

  [As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise.  

 

 

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22


 

  Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.  

 

 

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23


 

  Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.  

 

 

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24


 

  For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?  

 

 

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25


 

  The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.  

 

 

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26


 

  The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.  

 

 

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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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Proverbs 28

 

 

 

 

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