Proverbs 27:19-27

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.