11 The one who loves a pure heart
and gracious lips—the king is his friend.(A)

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11 Those who love a pure heart and are gracious in speech
    will have the king as a friend.(A)

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24 Don’t make friends with an angry person,[a]
and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered one,(A)

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  1. 22:24 Lit with a master of anger

24 Make no friends with those given to anger,
    and do not associate with hotheads,

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26 He who gives an honest answer
gives a kiss on the lips.

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26 One who gives an honest answer
    gives a kiss on the lips.

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

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Well meant are the wounds a friend inflicts,
    but profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

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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

Perfume and incense make the heart glad,
    but the soul is torn by trouble.[a]
10 Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent;
    do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is nearby
    than kindred who are far away.(A)

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  1. 27.9 Gk: Heb the sweetness of a friend is better than one’s own counsel

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

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

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  1. 27.17 Heb face

A discerning son keeps the law,
but a companion of gluttons humiliates his father.(A)

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Those who keep the law are wise children,
    but companions of gluttons shame their parents.(A)

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A person who flatters his neighbor
spreads a net for his feet.(A)

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Whoever flatters a neighbor
    is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.

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