Proverbs 27:10-18

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¹⁰ Do not forsake your friend and ^(A)your father's friend,
    and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity.
^(B)Better is a neighbor who is near
    than a brother who is far away.
^11 (C)Be wise, ^(D)my son, and ^(E)make my heart glad,
    that I may ^(F)answer him who reproaches me.
^12 (G)The prudent sees danger and hides himself,
    but ^(H)the simple go on and suffer for it.
^13 (I)Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger,
    and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.^[a]
14 Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice,
    rising early in the morning,
    will be counted as cursing.
^15 (J)A continual dripping on a rainy day
    and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
¹⁶ to restrain her is to restrain the wind
    or to grasp^[b] oil in one's right hand.
¹⁷ Iron sharpens iron,
    and one man sharpens another.^[c]
18 (K)Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
    and he who ^(L)guards his master will be honored.