Proverbs 17
1 pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
Better is a morsel with pleasure in peace, than a house [full] of many good things and unjust 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 wise servant shall have rule over foolish masters, and shall divide portions among brethren.
3 crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, so are choice hearts with the Lord.
4 be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
A bad man hearkens to the tongue of transgressors: but a righteous man attends not to false lips.
5 to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
He that laughs at the poor provokes him that made him; and he that rejoices at the destruction of another shall not be held guiltless: but he that has compassion shall find mercy.
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 their fathers are the glory of children. The faithful has the whole world full of wealth; but the faithless not even a farthing.
7 not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
Faithful lips will not suit a fool; nor lying lips a just man.
8 stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
Instruction is to them that use it a gracious reward; and wherever it may turn, it shall prosper.
9 to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
He that conceals injuries seeks love; but he that hates to hide [them] separates friends and kindred.
10 to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
A threat breaks down the heart of a wise man; but a fool, though scourged, understands not.
11 surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
Every bad man stirs up strifes: but the Lord will send out against him an unmerciful messenger.
12 to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
Care may befall a man of understanding; but fools will meditate evils.
13 to return: return distress: evil underneath: instead welfare not (to remove *Q(k)*) distress: evil from house: home his
Whoso rewards evil for good, evil shall not be removed from his house.
14 to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
Rightful rule gives power to words; but sedition and strife precede poverty.
15 to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
He that pronounces the unjust just, and the just unjust, is unclean and abominable with God.
16 to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
Why has the fool wealth? for a senseless man will not be able to purchase wisdom. He that exalts his own house seeks ruin; and he that turns aside from instruction shall fall into mischief.
17 in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
Have you a friend for every time, and let brethren be useful in distress; for on this account are they born.
18 man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
A foolish man applauds and rejoices over himself, [as he] also that becomes surety would make himself responsible for his own friends.
19 to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
A lover of sin rejoices in strifes;
20 twisted heart not to find good and to overturn in/on/with tongue his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
and the hard-hearted man comes not in for good. A man of a changeful tongue will fall into mischiefs;
21 to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
and the heart of a fool is grief to its possessor. A father rejoices not over an uninstructed son; but a wise son gladdens his mother.
22 heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
A glad heart promotes health; but the bones of a sorrowful man dry up.
23 bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
The ways of a man who unjustly receives gifts in [his] bosom do not prosper; and an ungodly man perverts the ways of righteousness.
24 with face to understand wisdom and eye fool in/on/with end land: country/planet
The countenance of a wise man is sensible; but the eyes of a fool [go] to 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 cause of] anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.
26 also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
[It is] not right to punish a righteous man, nor [is it] holy to plot against righteous princes.
27 to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
He that forbears to utter a hard word is discreet, and a patient man is wise.
28 also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
Wisdom shall be imputed to a fool who asks after wisdom: and he who holds his peace shall seem to be sensible.
