12Those who have good sense will realize that there is something dangerous ahead, and they will hide; those who do not have good sense just keep going, and later they will suffer because of doing that.
13You deserve to have your property taken from you if you foolishly promise to a stranger (OR, a strange woman) that you will pay what she owes if she is unable to pay it DOU.
14If you rise early in the morning and call out a greeting to your neighbor while he is still sleeping, he will consider it to be a curse, not a blessing.
15Having a wife that is constantly nagging is as bad as listening to rain continually dripping on a rainy day.
16Trying to restrain/stop her from doing that is as difficult SIM as trying to stop the wind or trying to hold oil in your hand.
17We can use one iron tool to sharpen another iron tool; similarly SIM, when one person shares what he is thinking, it can help other people to think more clearly.
18Those who take care of fig trees will have figs to eat; similarly, servants who protect their master will be honored by him.
19When a person looks in the water, he sees his own face; similarly SIM, when we look at a person's behavior, we know what he is thinking.
20It is as though the place where the dead people are is always wanting more people to die and come there; and humans SYN are always wanting to acquire more things, too.
21Workers put silver and gold in a very hot furnace to burn out what is impure, and SIM people learn what we are really like when they see how we react when people praise us.
22Even if you beat/crush a fool severely like MET you pulverize grain with a pestle, you probably will not be able to cause him to stop ◄being foolish/doing foolish things►.
23Take good care of your flocks of sheep and herds of cattle,
24because the money that you acquired from selling animals previously will not ◄last/stay with you► forever; similarly SIM, governments MTY certainly do not RHQ last forever.
25After you cut the hay DOU and store it to feed the animals in the winter while a new crop of hay is growing,
26you will be able to shear the sheep and make clothes from the wool, and you will get money from selling some of the goats to buy more land,
27and you will get enough milk from the other goats for you and your family and your female servants.
Proverbs 27
Proverbs 27:12-27