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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Boast not thyself of to morrow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.27.1"><span class="content">For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.27.2"><span class="content">A stranger, and not thine own lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">A stone </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> heavy, and the sand weighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.27.3"><span class="content">But a fool's wrath </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> heavier than them both.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Wrath </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> cruel, and anger </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> outrageous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.27.4"><span class="content">But who </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> able to stand before envy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Open rebuke </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> better</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.27.5"><span class="content">Than secret love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Faithful </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the wounds of a friend;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.27.6"><span class="content">But the kisses of an enemy </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> deceitful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The full soul loatheth an honeycomb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.27.7"><span class="content">But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As a bird that wandereth from her nest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.27.8"><span class="content">So </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a man that wandereth from his place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="content">So </span><span class="add"><span class="content">doth</span></span><span class="content"> the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="content">Neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">For</span></span><span class="content"> better </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a neighbour </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that is</span></span><span class="content"> near than a brother far off.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My son, be wise, and make my heart glad,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.27.11"><span class="content">That I may answer him that reproacheth me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A prudent </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content"> foreseeth the evil, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> hideth himself;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> the simple pass on, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> are punished.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Take his garment that is surety for a stranger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.27.13"><span class="content">And take a pledge of him for a strange woman.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.27.14"><span class="content">It shall be counted a curse to him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.27.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">A continual dropping in a very rainy day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.27.15"><span class="content">And a contentious woman are alike.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.27.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.27.16"><span class="content">And the ointment of his right hand, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> bewrayeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">itself</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.27.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Iron sharpeneth iron;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.27.17"><span class="content">So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.27.18"><span class="content">So he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.27.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As in water face </span><span class="add"><span class="content">answereth</span></span><span class="content"> to face,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.27.19"><span class="content">So the heart of man to man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.27.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Hell and destruction are never full;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.27.20"><span class="content">So the eyes of man are never satisfied.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">As</span></span><span class="content"> the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.27.21"><span class="content">So </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a man to his praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.27.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> will not his foolishness depart from him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.27.23"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> look well to thy herds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.27.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.27.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For riches </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> not for ever:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.27.24"><span class="content">And doth the crown </span><span class="add"><span class="content">endure</span></span><span class="content"> to every generation?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.27.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.27.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.27.25"><span class="content">And herbs of the mountains are gathered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.27.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.27.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The lambs </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> for thy clothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.27.26"><span class="content">And the goats </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the price of the field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.27.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.27.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thou shalt have</span></span><span class="content"> goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.27.27"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">for</span></span><span class="content"> the maintenance for thy maidens.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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