Proverbs [Sayings] 27:15-21

¹⁵A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

¹⁶restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.

¹⁷Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

¹⁸Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

¹⁹Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

²⁰Sheol ·Place of the dead· and Abaddon ·bottomless pit· are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

²¹The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.