Proverbs 17
1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
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 fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
4 A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and a liar gives ear to a naughty tongue.
be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
5 Whoso mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
7 Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
8 A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that has it: anywhere 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 that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.
to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
10 A reproof enters more into a wise man than an 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 bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
13 Whoso 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 as when one lets out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
15 He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no heart to it?
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 guarantor in the presence of his friend.
man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
19 He loves transgression that loves strife: and he that exalts his gate seeks destruction.
to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
20 He that has a perverse heart finds no good: and he that 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 that bring forths a fool does it 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 merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.
heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
23 A wicked man takes a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
24 Wisdom is before him that 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 that bare him.
vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
26 Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.
also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
27 He that has knowledge spares his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
28 Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
