Proverbs 27:4-10

⁴Ire or Wrath hath no mercy, and strong vengeance breaking out hath no mercy; and who may suffer the fierceness of a spirit stirred?

⁵Better is open reproving, than a love hid. Better is open amending, than hid love.

⁶Better be the wounds of him that loveth, than the guileful kisses of him that hateth.

⁷A man ful filled shall despise an honeycomb; but an hungry man shall take, yea, bitter thing for sweet.

⁸As a bird passing over from his nest, so is a man that forsaketh his place.

⁹The heart delighteth in ointment, and diverse odours; and a soul is made sweet by the good counsels of a friend.

¹⁰Forsake thou not thy friend, and the friend of thy father; and enter thou not into the house of thy brother, in the day of thy torment. Better is a neighbour nigh, than a brother afar.