< 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 therewith, 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 wise servant shall rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part in the inheritance among the brethren.
3 crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts.
4 be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
The evil-doer giveth heed to iniquitous lips; the liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.
5 to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
Whoso mocketh a poor [man] reproacheth his Maker; he that is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent.
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 are their fathers.
7 not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
Excellent speech becometh not a vile [man]; how much less do lying lips a noble!
8 stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
A gift is a precious stone in the eyes of the possessor: whithersoever it turneth it prospereth.
9 to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
He that covereth transgression seeketh love; but he that bringeth a matter up again separateth very friends.
10 to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
A reproof entereth more deeply into him that hath 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] seeketh only rebellion; but 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 bear robbed of her whelps meet a man 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
Whoso rewardeth 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 contention is [as] when one letteth out water; therefore leave off strife before it become vehement.
15 to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the righteous, even they both are abomination to Jehovah.
16 to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
To what purpose is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he] hath no sense?
17 in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
The friend loveth 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 senseless man striketh hands, becoming surety for his neighbour.
19 to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
He loveth transgression that loveth a quarrel; he that maketh high his gate seeketh 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 that hath a perverse heart findeth no good; and he that shifteth about with his tongue falleth into evil.
21 to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow, and the father of a vile [man] hath no joy.
22 heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
23 bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom, to pervert the paths of judgment.
24 with face to understand wisdom and eye fool in/on/with end land: country/planet
Wisdom is before him that hath 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 that bore him.
26 also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
To punish a righteous [man] is not good, nor to strike nobles because of [their] uprightness.
27 to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
He that hath knowledge spareth his words; and a man of understanding is of a cool spirit.
28 also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is reckoned wise, [and] he that shutteth his lips, intelligent.