Proverbs 17
17
1Better a dry crust with peace and quiet
than a house full of feasting, with strife.
2A prudent servant will rule over a disgraceful son
and will share the inheritance as one of the family.
3The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,
but the Lord tests the heart.
4A wicked person listens to deceitful lips;
a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
5Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker;
whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.
6Children’s children are a crown to the aged,
and parents are the pride of their children.
7Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool –
how much worse lying lips to a ruler!
8A bribe is seen as a charm by the one who gives it;
they think success will come at every turn.
9Whoever would foster love covers over an offence,
but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
10A rebuke impresses a discerning person
more than a hundred lashes a fool.
11Evildoers foster rebellion against God;
the messenger of death will be sent against them.
12Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
than a fool bent on folly.
13Evil will never leave the house
of one who pays back evil for good.
14Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam;
so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.
15Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent –
the Lord detests them both.
16Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom,
when they are not able to understand it?
17A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
18One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge
and puts up security for a neighbour.
19Whoever loves a quarrel loves sin;
whoever builds a high gate invites destruction.
20One whose heart is corrupt does not prosper;
one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble.
21To have a fool for a child brings grief;
there is no joy for the parent of a godless fool.
22A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
23The wicked accept bribes in secret
to pervert the course of justice.
24A discerning person keeps wisdom in view,
but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.
25A foolish son brings grief to his father
and bitterness to the mother who bore him.
26If imposing a fine on the innocent is not good,
surely to flog honest officials is not right.
27The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint,
and whoever has understanding is even-tempered.
28Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent,
and discerning if they hold their tongues.
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Mishle 17
17
1Better is a dry crust, and quietness therewith, than a bais full of zevakhim (sacrificial religious meals) with strife.
2An eved maskil (wise servant) shall have rule over a ben that causeth shame, and shall have a share of the nachalah among the achim.
3The crucible is for kesef, and the furnace for zahav, but Hashem is the testor of hearts.
4An evildoer giveth heed to false sfatayim (lips), and a sheker (liar) giveth ear to a spiteful lashon.
5He who mocketh the poor showeth contempt for his Oseh (Maker), and he that gloats at calamities shall not go unpunished.
6Bnei banim are the ateret of zekenim; and the tiferet of banim are their avot.
7Eloquent speech becometh not a naval (fool), much less do lying sfatayim (lips) a ruler.
8A shochad (gift, bribe) is like a charm in the eynayim of him that hath it: wherever he turneth, he prospereth.
9He that covereth a peysha (transgression) seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth the best of friends.
10Ge'arah (scolding) goeth deeper into a meiven than a hundred blows into a kesil (fool).
11A rah seeketh only rebellion; therefore a merciless malach shall be sent to him.
12Let an ish meet a dov robbed of her cubs rather than a kesil in his folly.
13He who rewardeth ra'ah for tovah, ra'ah shall not depart from his bais.
14The beginning of madon (strife) is like releasing mayim, therefore stop contention before a quarrel begins.
15He that justifieth the rashah, and he that condemneth the tzaddik, even they both are to'evah to Hashem.
16Why is there the purchase price in the yad of a kesil (fool) to acquire chochmah, seeing he hath no lev for it?
17The re'a (friend) loveth at all times, and a brother is born for tzarah (adversity).
18Adam devoid of lev#17:18 of understanding shaketh hands in pledge, and becometh the security deposit for his neighbor.
19He loveth peysha (transgression, sin) that loveth strife, and he that maketh his threshold high seeketh shever (fracture).
20He that hath a crooked mind findeth no tov, and he that hath a deceitful lashon falleth into ra'ah.
21He that begetteth a kesil doeth it to his sorrow, and the avi naval hath no simchah.
22A lev same'ach doeth tov like a medicine, but a downcast ruach drieth up the bones.
23A rasha accepts a shochad (bribe) out of the kheyk (bosom),#17:23 i.e., secretly to pervert the orkhot mishpat (paths of justice).
24Chochmah is before the meiven (discerning one); but the eynayim of a kesil are on the ends of ha'aretz.
25A ben kesil is a ka'as (grief) to aviv (his father), and bitterness to her that bore him.
26Also to punish the tzaddik is not tov, nor to flog officials for their yashar (uprightness, integrity).
27He that hath da'as spareth his words, and an ish tevunah (man of understanding) is of a calm ruach.
28Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted chacham, and he that shutteth his sfatayim (lips) is esteemed a man of understanding.
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