Proverbs 27:13-24

¹³Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pledge that is surety for an alien woman.

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

¹⁵A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;

¹⁶He that would hide her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand betrayeth itself.

¹⁷Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

¹⁸Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

¹⁹As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

²⁰The nether-world and Destruction are never satiated; so the eyes of man are never satiated.

²¹The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tried by his praise.

²²Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

²³Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds;

²⁴For riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure unto all generations?