Proverbs 17
1 Better [is] a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.
pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
2 A wise servant ruleth over a son causing shame, And in the midst of brethren He apportioneth an inheritance.
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 A refining pot [is] for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts [is] Jehovah.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
4 An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.
be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
5 Whoso is mocking at the poor Hath reproached his Maker, Whoso is rejoicing at calamity is not acquitted.
to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
6 Sons' sons [are] the crown of old men, And the glory of sons [are] their fathers.
crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
7 Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.
not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
8 A stone of grace [is] the bribe in the eyes of its possessors, Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
9 Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.
to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
10 Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.
to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion, And a fierce messenger is sent against him.
surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
12 The meeting of a bereaved bear by a man, And — not a fool in his folly.
to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
13 Whoso is returning evil for good, Evil moveth not 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 contention [is] a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
15 Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these [are] an abomination to Jehovah.
to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
16 Why [is] this — a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?
to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
17 At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.
in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
18 A man lacking heart is striking hands, A surety he becometh before his friend.
man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
19 Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance is seeking destruction.
to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
20 The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.
twisted heart not to find good and to overturn in/on/with tongue his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
21 Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.
to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
22 A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.
heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
23 A bribe from the bosom the wicked taketh, To turn aside the paths of judgment.
bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
24 The face of the intelligent [is] to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool — at the end of the earth.
with face to understand wisdom and eye fool in/on/with end land: country/planet
25 A provocation to his father [is] a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.
vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
26 Also, to fine the righteous is not good, To smite nobles for uprightness.
also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
27 One acquainted with knowledge is sparing his words, And the cool of temper [is] a man of understanding.
to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
28 Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!
also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
