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8 Like a bird that strays from its nest is one who strays from home.
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Like a bird that flees its nest is anyone who flees from home.
9 Perfume and incense make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble.
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Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice.
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.
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Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you— better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
11 Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer whoever reproaches me.
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Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart; then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt.
12 The clever see danger and hide; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
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The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
13 Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.
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Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.
14 Whoever blesses a neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
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If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
15 A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;
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A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;
16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in the right hand.
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restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.
17 Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens the wits of another.
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As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
18 Anyone who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and anyone who takes care of a master will be honored.
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The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever protects their master will be honored.
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