The KJV Bible With Strong's References:
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Proverbs 27
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- 27:1
Boast not thyself of to
morrow; for thou
knowest not what a
day may bring
forth.
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- 27:2 Let another
man
praise thee, and not thine own
mouth; a
stranger, and not thine own
lips.
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- 27:3 A
stone is
heavy, and the
sand
weighty; but a
fool's
wrath is
heavier than them
both.
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- 27:4
Wrath is
cruel, and
anger is
outrageous; but who is able to
stand
before
envy?
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- 27:5
Open
rebuke is
better than
secret
love.
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- 27:6
Faithful are the
wounds of a
friend; but the
kisses of an
enemy are
deceitful.
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- 27:7 The
full
soul
loatheth an
honeycomb; but to the
hungry
soul every bitter
thing is
sweet.
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- 27:8 As a
bird that
wandereth from her
nest, so is a
man that
wandereth from his
place.
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- 27:9
Ointment and
perfume
rejoice the
heart: so doth the
sweetness of a man's
friend by
hearty
counsel.
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- 27:10 Thine own
friend, and thy
father's
friend,
forsake not; neither
go into thy
brother's
house in the
day of thy
calamity: for
better is a
neighbour that is
near than a
brother far
off.
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- 27:11 My
son, be
wise, and make my
heart
glad, that I may
answer
* him that
reproacheth me.
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- 27:12 A
prudent man
foreseeth the
evil, and
hideth himself; but the
simple pass
on, and are
punished.
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- 27:13
Take his
garment that is
surety for a
stranger, and take a
pledge of him for a strange
woman.
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- 27:14 He that
blesseth his
friend with a
loud
voice, rising
early in the
morning, it shall be
counted a
curse to him.
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- 27:15 A
continual
dropping in a very
rainy
day and a
contentious
*
woman are
alike.
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- 27:16 Whosoever
hideth her
hideth the
wind, and the
ointment of his right
hand, which
bewrayeth itself.
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- 27:17
Iron
sharpeneth
iron; so a
man
sharpeneth the
countenance of his
friend.
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- 27:18 Whoso
keepeth the fig
tree shall
eat the
fruit thereof: so he that
waiteth on his
master shall be
honoured.
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- 27:19 As in
water
face answereth to
face, so the
heart of
man to
man.
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- 27:20
Hell and
destruction
* are
never
full; so the
eyes of
man are never
satisfied.
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- 27:21 As the fining
pot for
silver, and the
furnace for
gold; so is a
man
to his
praise.
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- 27:22 Though thou shouldest
bray a
fool in a
mortar
among
wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his
foolishness
depart from him.
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- 27:23 Be thou
diligent to
know the
state of thy
flocks, and
look
well to thy
herds.
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- 27:24 For
riches are not for
ever: and doth the
crown endure to
every
generation?
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- 27:25 The
hay
appeareth, and the tender
grass
sheweth itself, and
herbs of the
mountains are
gathered.
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- 27:26 The
lambs are for thy
clothing, and the
goats are the
price of the
field.
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- 27:27 And thou shalt have
goats'
milk
enough for thy
food, for the
food of thy
household, and for the
maintenance for thy
maidens.
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