Proverbs 27:21-26

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;

²⁴For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.

²⁵The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

²⁶The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field: