Proverbs 17
1 pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
Better is a dry morsell, if peace be with it, then an house full of sacrifices 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 discrete seruant shall haue rule ouer a lewde sonne, and hee shall deuide the heritage among the brethren.
3 crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
As is the fining pot for siluer, and the fornace for golde, so the Lord trieth the heartes.
4 be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
The wicked giueth heed to false lippes, and a lyer hearkeneth to the naughtie tongue.
5 to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
Hee that mocketh the poore, reprocheth him, that made him: and he that reioyceth at destruction, shall not be vnpunished.
6 crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
Childres children are the crowne of the elders: and the glory of ye children are their fathers.
7 not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
Hie talke becommeth not a foole, much lesse a lying talke a prince.
8 stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
A rewarde is as a stone pleasant in the eyes of them that haue it: it prospereth, whithersoeuer it turneth.
9 to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
Hee that couereth a transgression, seeketh loue: but hee that repeateth a matter, separateth the prince.
10 to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
A reproofe entereth more into him that hath vnderstanding, then an hundreth stripes into a foole.
11 surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
A sedicious person seeketh onely euill, and 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
It is better for a man to meete a beare robbed of her whelpes, then a foole in his follie.
13 to return: return distress: evil underneath: instead welfare not (to remove *Q(k)*) distress: evil from house: home his
He that rewardeth euil for good, euil 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 as one that openeth the waters: therefore or the contention be medled with, leaue off.
15 to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
He that iustifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the iust, euen they both are abomination to the Lord.
16 to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of the foole to get wisdome, and he hath none heart?
17 in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
A friende loueth at all times: and a brother is borne for aduersitie.
18 man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
A man destitute of vnderstanding, toucheth the hande, and becommeth suretie for his neighbour.
19 to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
He loueth transgression, that loueth strife: and he that exalteth 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
The froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a naughtie tongue, shall fall into euill.
21 to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
He that begetteth a foole, getteth himselfe sorow, and the father of a foole can haue no ioy.
22 heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
A ioyfull heart causeth good health: but a sorowfull minde dryeth 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 bosome to wrest the wayes of iudgement.
24 with face to understand wisdom and eye fool in/on/with end land: country/planet
Wisdome is in the face of him that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of a foole are in the corners of the world.
25 vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
A foolish sonne is a griefe vnto his father, and a heauines to her that bare him.
26 also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
Surely it is not good to condemne the iust, nor that ye princes should smite such for equitie.
27 to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
Hee that hath knowledge, spareth his wordes, and a man of vnderstanding is of an excellent spirit.
28 also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
Euen a foole (when he holdeth his peace) is counted wise, and hee that stoppeth his lips, prudent.
