Proverbs 27:3-22

³A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool’s vexation is heavier than they both.

⁴Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

⁵Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.

⁶Faithful are the wounds of a friend; But the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

⁷The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

⁸As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place.

⁹Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; So doth the sweetness of a man’s friend that cometh of hearty counsel.

¹⁰Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

¹¹My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, That I may answer him that reproacheth me.

¹²A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

¹³Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for a foreign woman.

¹⁴He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, It shall be counted a curse to him.

¹⁵A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

¹⁶He that would restrain her restraineth the wind; And his right hand encountereth oil.

¹⁷Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

¹⁸Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; And he that regardeth his master shall be honored.

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

²⁰Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

²¹The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; And a man is tried by his praise.

²²Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.