Proverbs 27:15-24

¹⁵A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:

¹⁶whosoever will restrain her restraineth the wind, and his right hand encountereth oil.

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

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

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

²⁰Sheol and destruction are insatiable; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

²¹The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; so let a man be to the mouth that praiseth him.

²²If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.

²³Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks; look well to thy herds:

²⁴for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown endure from generation to generation?