Proverbs 17
1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than a house full of feasting with strife.
pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
2 A servant who deals wisely shall have rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have part in the inheritance among the brothers.
servant/slave be prudent to rule in/on/with son: child be ashamed and in/on/with midst brother: male-sibling to divide inheritance
3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Jehovah tries the hearts.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
4 An evildoer gives heed to wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
5 He who mocks a poor man reproaches his maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
6 Son's sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.
crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
7 Excellent speech is not appropriate to a fool, much less lying lips to a prince.
not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
8 A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who has it; wherever it turns, it prospers.
stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
9 He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates chief friends.
to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
10 A rebuke enters deeper into him who has understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.
to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
11 An evil man seeks only rebellion. Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
12 Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool in his folly.
to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
13 He who rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
to return: return distress: evil underneath: instead welfare not (to remove *Q(k)*) distress: evil from house: home his
14 The beginning of strife is like letting out water. Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.
to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
15 He who justifies a wicked man, and he who condemns a righteous man, both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.
to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
16 Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?
to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
18 A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.
man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
19 He loves transgression who loves strife. He who raises high his gate seeks destruction.
to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
20 He who has a wayward heart finds no good, and he who has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.
twisted heart not to find good and to overturn in/on/with tongue his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
21 He who begets a fool it is to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.
to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
22 A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
23 A wicked man receives a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.
bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
24 Wisdom is before the face of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
with face to understand wisdom and eye fool in/on/with end land: country/planet
25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
26 Also to punish a righteous man is not good, nor to smite nobles for uprightness.
also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
27 He who spares his words has knowledge, and he who is of a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
28 Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is considered wise. When he shuts his lips, he is prudent.
also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
