Proverbs 17
1 Better a dry morsel, and peace therewith, than a house full of contentious sacrifices.
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, and, in the midst of brothers, shall he 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 Fining-pot for silver, crucible for gold, but, he that trieth hearts, is Yahweh.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
4 Discord, giveth heed to the aggrieving lip, —Falsehood, giveth ear to the destroying tongue.
be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
5 He that mocketh the poor, hath reproached his Maker, He that maketh merry at distress, shall not be held innocent.
to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
6 The crown of old men, consists of children’s children, and the adornment of children, is their fathers.
crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
7 Unseemly in an unworthy man, is the lip of excellence, much more, in one of noble mind, the lip of falsehood.
not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
8 A gift, in the eyes of its owner, is, a stone of beauty, whithersoever it turneth, it bringeth prosperity.
stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
9 He that hideth a transgression, seeketh love, but, he that repeateth a matter, separateth intimate friends.
to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
10 A reproof sinketh more deeply into an intelligent man than a hundred stripes, into a dullard!
to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
11 Nothing less than rebellion, doth a wicked man seek, and, a relentless messenger, shall be sent out against him.
surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
12 Let a bereaved bear encounter man, rather than a dullard, with his folly!
to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
13 He that 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 A letting forth of water, is the beginning of strife, therefore, before it breaketh out, abandon, contention.
to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
15 He that justifieth the lawless, and he that condemneth the righteous, an abomination to Yahweh, are they, both.
to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a dullard? that he who is without sense, may acquire wisdom.
to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
17 At all times, doth a friend love, and, a brother for distress, must be born.
in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
18 A man lacking sense, is one who striketh hands, giving security, before his neighbour.
man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
19 A lover of transgression, is one who loveth strife, he that heighteneth his door, seeketh grievous harm.
to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
20 The crooked in heart, shall not find good, and, he that is perverse with his tongue, shall fall into wickedness.
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 dullard, it is to his own grief, neither can the father of the base, rejoice.
to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
22 A joyful heart, worketh an excellent cure, —but, a stricken spirit, drieth up the bone.
heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
23 A bribe out of his bosom, doth a lawless man take, to pervert the ways of justice.
bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
24 Before the face of the discerning, is wisdom, but, the eyes of a dullard, are in the ends of the earth.
with face to understand wisdom and eye fool in/on/with end land: country/planet
25 A vexation to his father, is the son that is a dullard, and a bitterness, to her that bare him.
vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
26 Surely, to chastise the righteous, is not good, to smite the noble-minded for equity.
also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
27 Sparing of his words, is one who valueth knowledge, and, of a thoughtful spirit, is a man of intelligence.
to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
28 Even a fool, holding his peace, is accounted, wise, —He that closeth his lips, [is thought] to have understanding.
also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
