Proverbs 27:16
restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one's right hand.
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Proverbs 27:15
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike--

Proverbs 27:17
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.


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Whoever hides her hides the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which denudes itself.

the ointment



John 12:3
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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