Proverbs 17
1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of flesh-banquets with strife.
pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
2 A prudent servant shall rule over a son who causeth shame; Yea, with brothers he shall share 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 refining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But the LORD trieth hearts.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
4 An evil-doer listeneth to mischievous lips; And a liar giveth ear to a destructive tongue.
be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; He that is glad at calamities shall not go 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 the aged, And their fathers the glory of sons.
crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
7 Excellent speech becometh not the base; How much less lying lips the noble!
not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
8 A gift is a precious stone in the eyes of him who taketh it; Whithersoever it turneth it hath success.
stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
9 He who covereth an offence seeketh love; But he who recurreth to a matter removeth a friend.
to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
10 A reproof will penetrate deeper 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 An evil man seeketh only rebellion; Therefore shall a cruel messenger 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 whelps, 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 returneth 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 letteth out water; Therefore leave off contention before it rolleth onward.
to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
15 He that justifieth the wicked, And he that condemneth the just, Both alike are an abomination to the LORD.
to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
16 Why should a price be in the hand of a fool To get 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; But in adversity he is born a brother.
in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
18 A man who lacketh understanding striketh hands, And becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
19 He who loveth strife loveth transgression; He who raiseth high his gate seeketh ruin.
to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
20 He that is of a deceitful heart shall find no good; And he that turneth about with his tongue shall fall 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 Whoso begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow; Yea, the father of the fool hath no joy.
to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
22 A merry heart doeth good to the body; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
23 The wicked man taketh 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 the face of him that hath 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 bore him.
vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
26 Moreover, to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to smite the noble for their equity.
also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
27 He that spareth his words is imbued with knowledge; And he that 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 is silent, is accounted wise; He that shutteth his lips is a man of understanding.
also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
