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14 If someone blesses his neighbor at dawn with a loud voice,
    it will be reckoned to him as a curse.[a]
15 A constant dripping on a rainy day
    is much like a nagging wife;[b]
16 one might as well try to restrain the wind as to control her,
    or to pick up oil with one’s fingers.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:14 Premature praise can become an affliction (see Ps 12:3).
  2. Proverbs 27:15 See note on Prov 19:13.