Proverbs 27:18

¹⁶ restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.

¹⁷ As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.

¹⁹ As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.

²⁰ Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.

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ÅB: Den som passer sitt fikentre, får spise dets frukt, og den som tar vare på sin herre, blir æret.
OTB: Den som steller et fikentre vil spise dets frukt, og den som ser etter sin herre vil bli æret.
B1930: Den som passer sitt fikentre, får ete dets frukt, og den som tar vare på sin herre, blir æret.

BSB: Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.
KJV: Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
WEB: Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.
ASV: Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; And he that regardeth his master shall be honored.
DARBY: Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that guardeth his master shall be honoured.
BLB: One keeping watch over a fig tree will eat its fruit, and the one guarding his master will be honored.

1 Corinthians 9:7
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
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2 Timothy 2:6
The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.
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Song of Solomon 8:12
But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
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Luke 12:37
Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.
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John 12:26
If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
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Matthew 24:46
Blessed is that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.
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Luke 12:43–44
Blessed is that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.
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Luke 19:17
His master replied, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you shall have authority over ten cities.’
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