Proverbs 17
1 Better is a piece of dry bread, and quiet therewith, than a house full of the sacrifices of contention.
pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
2 An intelligent servant will have rule over a son that bringeth shame, and among the brothers will he have part of the inheritance.
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 crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the Lord probeth the hearts.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
4 An evil-doer listeneth to unjust lips: falsehood giveth ear to a tongue that bringeth destruction.
be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
5 Whoso mocketh the poor blasphemeth his Maker: he that is glad at calamities will not remain unpunished.
to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
6 The crown of old men are children's children; and the ornament of children are their fathers.
crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
7 High-toned language is not seemly to a worthless fool: and yet much less the language of falsehood to a noble.
not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
8 As a precious stone appeareth a bribe in the eyes of him that obtaineth it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth confident friends.
to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
10 A reproof penetrateth more deeply into a wise man, than a hundred stripes into a fool.
to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
11 Only rebellion doth a bad man seek: therefore a cruel messenger will be sent out against him.
surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
12 A man may meet a she-bear robbed of her whelps, but not a fool in his folly.
to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
13 Whoso bestoweth evil in return 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 As one letteth loose [a stream] of water, so is the beginning of strife: therefore before it be enkindled, leave off the contest.
to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
15 He that declareth the wicked innocent, and he that condemneth the righteous, yea, both of them are equally an abomination to the Lord.
to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
16 Wherefore is the purchase-money in the hand of a fool to acquire wisdom, seeing he hath no sense?
to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
17 A friend loveth at all times, and as a brother is he born for [the time of] distress.
in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
18 A man void of sense pledgeth his hand, and becometh surety for his friend.
man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
19 He loveth transgression that loveth quarrel; and he that maketh high his door seeketh destruction.
to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
20 He that hath a froward heart will not find happiness; and he that hath a perverse tongue will fall into evil.
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 begetteth a fool [doth it] to his sorrow; and the father of a worthless fool cannot have any joy.
to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
22 A merry heart causeth a healthy appearance of the countenance, but a depressed spirit drieth up the bones.
heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
23 A wicked man taketh a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the paths of justice.
bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are at 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 vexation to his father, and bitterness to her that hath born him.
vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
26 To punish the just with a fine even is not good, nor to strike the noble [-hearted] for [their] equity.
also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
27 He that holdeth back his speeches hath knowledge; and he that is sparing of his 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 keepeth silence, is counted wise: he that shutteth his lips [is esteemed] a man of understanding.
also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
