Proverbs 27:14-16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
14 Those who greet their neighbor with a loud voice[a] in the early morning,
a curse can be laid to their charge.
15 For a persistent leak on a rainy day
the match is a quarrelsome wife;(A)
16 Whoever would hide her hides a stormwind
and cannot tell north from south.
Footnotes
- 27:14 One interpretation takes the proverb as humorous and the other takes it as serious: (1) an overly loud and ill-timed greeting (lit., “blessing”) invites the response of a curse rather than a “blessing” (greeting); (2) the loud voice suggests hypocrisy in the greeting.
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