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Proverbs 27:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

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.
18 Anyone who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
    and anyone who takes care of a master will be honored.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 27.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 27.17 Heb face
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