Proverbs 17
1 pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, 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 who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
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 tests the hearts.
4 be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives 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 mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who 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; the glory of children are their parents.
7 not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
8 stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.
9 to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
10 to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into 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; 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 cubs 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
Whoever rewards 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 like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
15 to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike 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
Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, seeing he has no understanding?
17 in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
A friend loves 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 strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.
19 to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
20 twisted heart not to find good and to overturn in/on/with tongue his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
21 to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
22 heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
23 bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, 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 the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander everywhere.
25 vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
26 also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.
27 to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.
28 also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
