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 servant that dealeth wisely shall have rule over a son that dealeth shamefully, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
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 the LORD trieth the hearts.
4 be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
A evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; and a 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 the poor blasphemeth his Maker; and he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
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
Overbearing speech becometh not a churl; much less do lying lips a prince.
8 stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it; whithersoever he turneth, he prospereth.
9 to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that harpeth on a matter estrangeth a familiar friend.
10 to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
A rebuke entereth deeper into a man of 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
A rebellious man seeketh only evil; 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 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 strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention, before the quarrel break out.
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 an 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 a fool to buy wisdom, seeing he hath no understanding?
17 in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
A 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 man void of understanding is he that striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his neighbour.
19 to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
He loveth transgression that loveth strife; 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
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good; and he that hath a perverse 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 churl hath no joy.
22 heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
A merry heart is a good medicine; but a broken spirit drieth 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 ways of justice.
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 vexation 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 also the righteous is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
27 to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
He that spareth his words hath knowledge; and he that husbandeth his spirit is a man of discernment.
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 counted wise; and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed as a man of understanding.
