Proverbs 27:16-23

¹⁶He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.

¹⁷Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.

¹⁸Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.

¹⁹Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.

²⁰The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.

²¹The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

²²Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

²³Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;