OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 27:14

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He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.

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Verse 14. In the night. Or “early in the morning,” de nocte, as the Hebrew implies.—Curseth. His importunity will be equally displeasing. Bible.—Flattery is dangerous, ( Calmet.) and unworthy of a free man. Cic. de Amic.

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