Proverbs

Proverbs 27:9–10: Ointment and perfume delight the heart, and the sweetness of a man’s friend gives delight by hearty counsel. Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend, Nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother …

Proverbs 27:5–6: Open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Proverbs 27:2: Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.

Proverbs 27:1: Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

Proverbs 26:20–21: Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; And where there is no talebearer, strife ceases. As charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

Proverbs 26:17: He who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a dog by the ears.

Proverbs 26:12: Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Proverbs 26:11: As a dog returns to his own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

Proverbs 26:4–5: Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Proverbs 25:28: Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls.