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Proverbs 27:15-17
English Standard Version

15 (A)A continual dripping on a rainy day
    and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind
    or to grasp[a] oil in one's right hand.
17 Iron sharpens iron,
    and one man sharpens another.[b]

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  1. Proverbs 27:16 Hebrew to meet with
  2. Proverbs 27:17 Hebrew sharpens the face of another
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