Proverbs 17
1 It is better [to eat] a dry piece [of bread] and not have strife/quarrels than to have a big feast in a house where [everyone] is quarreling.
pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
2 A slave who acts wisely will [some day] be the boss of his master’s disgraceful son and when his master dies, the slave will receive part of his master’s possessions.
servant/slave be prudent to rule in/on/with son: child be ashamed and in/on/with midst brother: male-sibling to divide inheritance
3 [Workers put] silver and gold in a very hot furnace [to burn out what is impure], and Yahweh [similarly] examines people’s inner beings [to see if they are pure].
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
4 Those who do what is evil pay attention to people who say [MTY] what is evil, and liars pay attention to [other people’s] lies.
be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
5 Those who make fun of poor [people] insult God, the one who made the poor [people], [and] those who are happy when [someone else has] troubles will certainly be punished [LIT] [by God].
to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
6 Old [people] are [usually] proud of [MET] their grandchildren, [just like] children are [usually] proud of their parents.
crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
7 Fine/Eloquent speech is not suitable for foolish people to say, just like lies are not suitable for rulers [to say].
not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
8 People think that a bribe is like a magic stone [to persuade someone to do what they want him to do]; they think that because of the bribe, that person will do whatever they want him to do.
stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
9 If you want people to like/love you, forgive them for the wrong things that they do to you. If you continue to remind them about those wrong things, they will no longer be your friends.
to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
10 Rebuking people who have good sense will accomplish more for them than hitting them 100 times [with a stick].
to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
11 [Because] wicked people are always trying to cause trouble, someone will be sent to severely punish them.
surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
12 A mother bear whose cubs have been taken away from her is dangerous, but it is more dangerous to confront a foolish person who is doing something foolish.
to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
13 If someone does something evil in return for something good being done to him, evil/trouble will never leave that person’s family.
to return: return distress: evil underneath: instead welfare not (to remove *Q(k)*) distress: evil from house: home his
14 Starting a quarrel is like allowing water to start to leak out of a dam; they both need to be stopped before they get worse.
to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
15 There are two things that Yahweh hates: (Condemning innocent [people]/Saying that people who have done nothing wrong must be punished), and declaring that people who have done wicked things should not be punished.
to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
16 It is useless to allow foolish people [RHQ] to try to become wise by paying for it, because they do not have enough good sense to become wise.
to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
17 Friends love [others] all the time, and relatives are able to help us when we have troubles.
in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
18 [If someone borrows money from another person], it is foolish for you to promise [IDM] that you will pay the money back if that other person is unable to pay back the money that he borrowed.
man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
19 Those who like to sin [also] like to cause strife/trouble; [and] those who build fancy doors in their houses [to show that they are very wealthy] (OR, speak proudly) are inviting disaster.
to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
20 Those who (have perverse minds/are always thinking about doing evil things) will not prosper, and disasters will happen to those who always tell lies.
twisted heart not to find good and to overturn in/on/with tongue his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
21 Children who are foolish [soon] cause their parents to be very sad; their parents will not be joyful at all.
to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
22 Being cheerful is [like swallowing] good medicine; being discouraged/gloomy [all the time will] (drain away your energy/cause you to become weak) [MTY].
heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
23 Wicked people/judges accept bribes that are given to them secretly, and as a result they do not decide matters justly/fairly.
bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
24 Those who have good sense determine to do what is wise, but foolish people are always thinking about many different things [and never decide what they should do].
with face to understand wisdom and eye fool in/on/with end land: country/planet
25 Children who are foolish cause their father to be sad and [also] cause their mother to be very sorrowful.
vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
26 It is not right to force someone who has done nothing wrong to pay a fine; it is wrong to punish good/respected people.
also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
27 Those who have good sense do not talk a lot, and those who (control their tempers/keep themselves from becoming very angry) are [truly] wise.
to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
28 People [may] think that foolish people who do not say anything are wise; if foolish people (do not say anything/keep their mouths shut), others will think that they are [very] intelligent.
also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
