(A)Open rebuke is better
Than love carefully concealed.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But the kisses of an enemy are (B)deceitful.

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Better an open reprimand
than concealed love.(A)

The wounds of a friend are trustworthy,(B)
but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.(C)

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Ointment and perfume delight the heart,
And the sweetness of a man’s friend gives delight by [a]hearty counsel.

10 Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
Nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
(A)Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

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  1. Proverbs 27:9 Lit. counsel of the soul

Oil(A) and incense bring joy to the heart,
and the sweetness of a friend is better than self-counsel.[a]

10 Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,(B)
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.(C)

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  1. 27:9 LXX reads heart, but the soul is torn up by affliction

14 He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,
It will be counted a curse to him.

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14 If one blesses his neighbor
with a loud voice early in the morning,
it will be counted as a curse to him.

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17 As iron sharpens iron,
So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

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17 Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens another.[a]

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  1. 27:17 Lit and a man sharpens his friend’s face