{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Proverbs",
 "chapter": 27,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Open rebuke is better than secret love."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?"
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "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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 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}