Proverbs 17
1 pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.
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 does wisely will have rule over a son causing shame, and will have his part in the heritage among brothers.
3 crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
4 be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.
5 to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
6 crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.
7 not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.
8 stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.
9 to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.
10 to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
11 surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
An uncontrolled man is only looking for trouble, so a cruel servant will be sent against him.
12 to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.
13 to return: return distress: evil underneath: instead welfare not (to remove *Q(k)*) distress: evil from house: home his
If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.
14 to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.
15 to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.
16 to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?
17 in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.
18 man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.
19 to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.
20 twisted heart not to find good and to overturn in/on/with tongue his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.
21 to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.
22 heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.
23 bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.
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 sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on 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 bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
26 also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
To give punishment to the upright is not good, or to give blows to the noble for their righteousness.
27 to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
He who has knowledge says little: and he who has a calm spirit is a man of good sense.
28 also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.
