Proverbs 17
1 Better is a dry morsel with quietness, 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 servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among 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 refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
4 An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
6 Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children is their parents.
crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
7 Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
8 A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.
stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
9 He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
10 A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.
to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
11 An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
13 Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from 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 strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
16 Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?
to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
17 A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
18 A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.
man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
19 He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
20 One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
twisted heart not to find good and to overturn in/on/with tongue his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. 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 makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
23 A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.
bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
24 Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
with face to understand wisdom and eye fool in/on/with end land: country/planet
25 A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
26 Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.
also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
27 He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.
to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
28 Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
