Proverbs 17
1 pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
Okulya akamere akaluma awali emirembe, kisinga okuba mu nnyumba ejjudde ebyassava nga mulimu entalo.
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
Omuddu omugezi alifuga omwana wa bowo akwasa ensonyi, era alifuna ebyobusika ng’omu ku baana b’awaka.
3 crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
Entamu erongoosa yakolebwa lwa ffeeza, n’ekikoomi ky’okulongoosa lwa zaabu, naye Mukama agezesa emitima.
4 be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
Omubi assaayo omwoyo eri eby’obulimba, era n’omulimba awuliriza olulimi olukuusa.
5 to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
Oyo akudaalira omwavu avvoola eyamutonda, n’oyo asanyukira obuyinike bw’abalala talirema kubonerezebwa.
6 crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
Abazzukulu ngule ya bajjajjaabwe, era n’abaana beenyumiririza mu bakadde baabwe.
7 not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
Enjogerannungi teba ya musirusiru, ng’oweekitiibwa bw’atasaana kwogera bya bulimba.
8 stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
Enguzi eri ng’ejjinja ery’omufuusa mu maaso g’oyo agigaba, alowooza nti buli gy’akyukira eneemuyamba.
9 to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
Okwagala tekulondoola nsobi, naye oyo atasonyiwa nsobi akyawaganya ab’omukwano enfirabulago.
10 to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
Okunenya kuyamba nnyo omuntu ategeera, okusinga okukuba omusirusiru embooko ekikumi.
11 surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
Omukozi w’ebibi anoonya bujeemu bwereere, era kyaliva asindikirwa omubaka omukambwe.
12 to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
Okusisinkana eddubu enyagiddwako abaana baayo, kisinga okusisinkana omusirusiru mu busirusiru bwe.
13 to return: return distress: evil underneath: instead welfare not (to remove *Q(k)*) distress: evil from house: home his
Omuntu bw’asasula ekibi olw’obulungi, ekibi tekiriva mu nnyumba ye.
14 to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
Okutandika oluyombo kuli ng’omuntu bw’asumulula omudumu gw’amazzi, noolwekyo vvaawo ng’oluyombo terunnatandika.
15 to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
Eyejjeereza omukozi w’ebibi n’oyo avumirira omutuukirivu, bombi ba muzizo eri Mukama.
16 to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
Omusirusiru agasibwa ki okuba ne ssente ezisasulibwa amagezi, ng’ate ye talina mutima gwegomba magezi?
17 in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
Omukwano ogw’amagezi guba gwa lubeerera, era owooluganda yeesigibwa mu biro eby’ennaku.
18 man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
Omuntu atalina magezi awa obweyamo ne yeetema okusasula amabanja ga muliraanwa we.
19 to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
Oyo ayagala ekibi anyumirwa ennyombo, n’oyo akola omulyango omunene ogw’omu maaso gwa bbugwe ye nga guyitiridde obunene gulimuteganya nnyo.
20 twisted heart not to find good and to overturn in/on/with tongue his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
Omuntu ow’omutima omubambaavu takulaakulana, n’oyo ow’olulimi olulimba agwa mu katyabaga.
21 to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
Omwana omusirusiru aleetera kitaawe obuyinike, kitaawe w’omusirusiru taba na ssanyu.
22 heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
Omutima ogw’essanyu ddagala ddungi, naye omwoyo omunyiikaavu gukozza omubiri.
23 bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
Omuntu omubi alya enguzi mu kyama, alyoke aziyize amazima okweyoleka.
24 with face to understand wisdom and eye fool in/on/with end land: country/planet
Omuntu omutegeevu, ebirowoozo abissa eri amagezi, naye amaaso g’omusirusiru gasamaalirira ensi gy’ekoma.
25 vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
Omwana omusirusiru buyinike eri kitaawe, era aleeta ennaku eri nnyina eyamuzaala.
26 also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
Si kirungi okuweesa omutuukirivu engassi ey’obwereere wadde okukuba ab’ekitiibwa embooko olw’obwesimbu bwabwe.
27 to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
Omuntu omwegendereza mu bigambo bye abeera n’okutegeera, n’oyo alina omwoyo omuteefu aba muntu wa magezi.
28 also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
Omusirusiru bw’asirika alowoozebwa okuba n’amugezi, era aba mutegeevu bw’afuga akamwa ke.
