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Proverbs 27:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Proverbs 27:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind
or to grasp oil in the right hand.[a]
17 Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens the wits[b] of another.
18 Anyone who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
and anyone who takes care of a master will be honored.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 27:16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
- Proverbs 27:17 Heb face
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
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