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Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/27-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, for your family's food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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