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19 A man can see his face in a mirror.
    But his thoughts show what he is really like.
20 The deep hole of death always wants more dead people to fill it.
    In the same way, a person wants to have everything that he sees.
21 You need a hot fire to see if silver and gold are pure.
    In the same way, when people praise you,
    they can see what you are really like.

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19 As water reflects the face,
    so one’s life reflects the heart.[a]

20 Death and Destruction[b] are never satisfied,(A)
    and neither are human eyes.(B)

21 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,(C)
    but people are tested by their praise.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:19 Or so others reflect your heart back to you
  2. Proverbs 27:20 Hebrew Abaddon