16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind
    or to grasp[a] oil in one's right hand.
17 Iron sharpens iron,
    and one man sharpens another.[b]
18 (A)Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
    and he who (B)guards his master will be honored.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:16 Hebrew to meet with
  2. Proverbs 27:17 Hebrew sharpens the face of another

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