Proverbs 27:13-23

13 Take the coat of one who puts up money for what a stranger owes. Hold it until you get paid back if he does it for a woman who commits adultery.

14 Suppose you loudly bless your neighbor early in the morning. Then you might as well be calling down a curse on him.

15 A nagging wife is like dripping that never stops on a rainy day.

16 Stopping her is like trying to stop the wind. It's like trying to grab oil with your hand.

17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

18 A person who takes good care of a fig tree will eat its fruit. And a person who looks after his master will be honored.

19 When you look into water, you see a likeness of your face. When you look into your heart, you see what you are really like.

20 Death and the Grave are never satisfied. A man's eyes are never satisfied either.

21 Fire tests silver. Heat tests gold. But a man is tested by the praise he receives.

22 You can grind a foolish person in a mill. You can grind him as you would grind grain with a tool. But you can't remove his foolishness from him.

23 Be sure you know how your flocks are doing. Pay careful attention to your herds.

Proverbs 27:13-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 14

This chapter relates the sickness of Jeroboam's son, the application of his wife, at his instance, to the prophet Ahijah, in the child's favour, 1Ki 14:1-6, the prophecy of the prophet concerning the ruin of Jeroboam's house, and the death of the child, which came to pass, 1Ki 14:7-18, an account of the years of Jeroboam's reign, and also of Rehoboam's, 1Ki 14:19-21, and of the evil things done and suffered by the latter in his kingdom, and the calamities that came upon him for it, 1Ki 14:22-28 and the conclusion of his reign, 1Ki 14:29-31.