Proverbs 27:15-22

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►.