Proverbs 27:14
Whoever gives his neighbor a blessing with a loud voice early in the morning, 1 that blessing will be considered to be a curse! 1
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15A quarreling wife is like 1 the constant dripping on a rainy day; 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:2Absalom would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. When any man had a dispute to come to the king for judgment, Absalom called to him and said, “From what city have you come?” Then the man would answer, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”
2 Samuel 17:7So Hushai said to Absalom, “The advice that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”
1 Kings 22:13The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “Now look, the words of the prophets declare good things to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like one of them and say good things.”
Acts 12:22The people shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man!”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:14
13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. This also we had before, ch. xx. 16 . 1. It shows who those are that are hastening to poverty, those that have so little consideration as to be bound for every body that will ask them and those that are given to women. Such as these will take up money as far as ever their credit will go, but they will certainly cheat their creditors at last, nay, they are cheating them all along. An honest man may be made a beggar, but… Read the whole commentary →