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16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind[a]
    or to grasp oil in one’s right hand.
17 Iron sharpens iron,
    and one man sharpens another.
18 He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
    and he who guards his master will be honored.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:16 Heb obscure

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