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15 A continual dripping on a rainy day
    and a contentious wife are alike;
16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind
    or to grasp oil in the right hand.[a]
17 Iron sharpens iron,
    and one person sharpens the wits[b] of another.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. Proverbs 27:17 Heb face

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