Proverbs 17
1 pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
Better [is] a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of 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 rules over a son causing shame, And he apportions an inheritance in the midst of brothers.
3 crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
A refining pot [is] for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts [is] YHWH.
4 be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
An evildoer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.
5 to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
Whoever is mocking at the poor Has reproached his Maker, Whoever is rejoicing at calamity is not acquitted.
6 crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
Sons’ sons [are] the crown of old men, And the glory of sons [are] their fathers.
7 not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
A lip of excellence is not fitting for a fool, much less a lip of falsehood for a noble.
8 stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
A stone of grace [is] the bribe in the eyes of its possessors, Wherever it turns, it prospers.
9 to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
Whoever is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoever is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.
10 to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
Rebuke comes down on the intelligent More than one hundred stripes on a fool.
11 surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
An evil man seeks only rebellion, And a fierce messenger is sent against him.
12 to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
The meeting of a bereaved bear by a man, And—not 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
Whoever is returning evil for good, Evil does not move 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] a letting out of waters, And leave the strife before it is meddled with.
15 to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
Whoever is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these [are] an abomination to YHWH.
16 to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
Why [is] this—a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart—there is none?
17 in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
The friend is loving 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 lacking heart is striking hands, He becomes a guarantor before his friend.
19 to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
Whoever is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoever is making his entrance high is seeking 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 perverse of heart does not find good, And the [one] turned in his tongue falls into evil.
21 to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
Whoever is begetting a fool has affliction for it, Indeed, the father of a fool does not rejoice.
22 heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
A rejoicing heart does good to the body, And a struck spirit dries the bone.
23 bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
The wicked takes a bribe from the bosom, To turn aside the paths of judgment.
24 with face to understand wisdom and eye fool in/on/with end land: country/planet
The face of the intelligent [is] to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool—at the end of the earth.
25 vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
A foolish son [is] a provocation to his father, And bitterness to her bearing him.
26 also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
Also, [it] is not good to fine the righteous, To strike nobles for uprightness.
27 to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
One acquainted with knowledge is sparing his words, And the cool of temper [is] a man of understanding.
28 also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips [seems] intelligent!
