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 ruleth over a son causing shame, And in the midst of brethren He apportioneth an inheritance.
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] Jehovah.
4 be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
An evil doer 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
Whoso is mocking at the poor Hath reproached his Maker, Whoso 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
Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.
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, Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
9 to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.
10 to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a 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 seeketh 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
Whoso is returning evil for good, Evil moveth not 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 before it is meddled with leave the strife.
15 to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these [are] an abomination to Jehovah.
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
At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.
18 man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
A man lacking heart is striking hands, A surety he becometh before his friend.
19 to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance 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 findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.
21 to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.
22 heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.
23 bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
A bribe from the bosom the wicked taketh, 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 provocation to his father [is] a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.
26 also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
Also, to fine the righteous is not good, To smite 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 intelligent!
