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