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15 A constant dripping on a rainy day
    is much like a nagging wife;[a]
16 one might as well try to restrain the wind as to control her,
    or to pick up oil with one’s fingers.
17 As iron sharpens iron,
    so a man sharpens the wits of his neighbor.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:15 See note on Prov 19:13.