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18 Whoever tends a fig tree gets to eat its fruit,
    and whoever takes care of his master will receive honor.

19 As water reflects your face,
    so your mind shows what kind of person you are.

20 People will never stop dying and being destroyed,
    and they will never stop wanting more than they have.

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18 The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit,(A)
    and whoever protects their master will be honored.(B)

19 As water reflects the face,
    so one’s life reflects the heart.[a]

20 Death and Destruction[b] are never satisfied,(C)
    and neither are human eyes.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:19 Or so others reflect your heart back to you
  2. Proverbs 27:20 Hebrew Abaddon