Proverbs 17
1 It is better to have quiet with a dry morsel of bread than a house full of feasting with strife.
pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
2 A wise servant will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.
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 The crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, but Yahweh refines hearts.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
4 The evildoer pays attention to wicked lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.
be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
5 Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker and the one who rejoices at misfortune will not go unpunished.
to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
6 Grandchildren are the crown of the aged and parents bring honor to their children.
crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
7 Eloquent speech is not suitable for a fool; much less are lying lips suitable for royalty.
not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
8 A bribe is like a magic stone to the one who gives it; wherever he turns, he succeeds.
stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
9 Whoever overlooks an offense seeks love, but the one who repeats a matter alienates close friends.
to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
10 A rebuke goes deeper into a person who has understanding than a hundred blows go into a fool.
to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
11 An evil person only seeks rebellion, so a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
12 It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than to meet a fool in his foolishness.
to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
13 When someone returns evil for good, evil will never leave his house.
to return: return distress: evil underneath: instead welfare not (to remove *Q(k)*) distress: evil from house: home his
14 The beginning of conflict is like one who releases water everywhere, so walk away from the dispute before it has broken out.
to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
15 The person who acquits the wicked person and the person who condemns the righteous person— both are an abomination to Yahweh.
to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
16 Why should a fool pay money to learn about wisdom, when he has no ability to learn it?
to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
17 A friend is loving at all times and a brother is born for times of trouble.
in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
18 A man having no sense makes binding promises and becomes responsible for his neighbor's debts.
man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
19 Whoever loves conflict loves sin; the one who makes the threshold of his door too high causes bones to be broken.
to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
20 A person who has a crooked heart finds nothing that is good; the one who has a perverse tongue falls into calamity.
twisted heart not to find good and to overturn in/on/with tongue his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
21 Whoever is the parent of a fool brings grief to himself; and the father of a fool has no joy.
to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
23 A wicked man accepts a secret bribe to pervert the ways of justice.
bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
24 The one who has understanding sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are set on the ends of the earth.
with face to understand wisdom and eye fool in/on/with end land: country/planet
25 A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to the woman who bore him.
vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
26 Also, it is never good to punish the righteous person; neither is it good to flog noble men who have integrity.
also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
27 One who has knowledge uses few words and one with understanding is even-tempered.
to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
28 Even a fool is thought to be wise if he keeps silent; when he keeps his mouth shut, he is considered to be intelligent.
also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
