Proverbs 17
17
1Better to eat a dry crust of bread with peace of mind than to have a banquet in a house full of trouble.
2A shrewd servant will gain authority over a master's worthless son and receive a part of the inheritance.
3Gold and silver are tested by fire, and a person's heart is tested by the LORD.
4Evil people listen to evil ideas, and liars listen to lies.
5If you laugh at poor people, you insult the God who made them. You will be punished if you take pleasure in someone's misfortune.
6Grandparents are proud of their grandchildren, just as children are proud of their parents.
7Respected people do not tell lies, and fools have nothing worthwhile to say.
8Some people think a bribe works like magic; they believe it can do anything.
9If you want people to like you, forgive them when they wrong you. Remembering wrongs can break up a friendship.
10An intelligent person learns more from one rebuke than a fool learns from being beaten a hundred times.
11Death will come like a cruel messenger to wicked people who are always stirring up trouble.
12It is better to meet a mother bear robbed of her cubs than to meet some fool busy with a stupid project.
13If you repay good with evil, you will never get evil out of your house.
14The start of an argument is like the first break in a dam; stop it before it goes any further.
15Condemning the innocent or letting the wicked go — both are hateful to the LORD.
16It does a fool no good to spend money on an education, because he has no common sense.
17Friends always show their love. What are relatives for if not to share trouble?
18Only someone with no sense would promise to be responsible for someone else's debts.
19To like sin is to like making trouble. If you brag all the time,#17.19 brag… time; or make a show of your wealth. you are asking for trouble.
20Anyone who thinks and speaks evil can expect to find nothing good — only disaster.
21There is nothing but sadness and sorrow for parents whose children do foolish things.
22Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.
23Corrupt judges accept secret bribes, and then justice is not done.
24An intelligent person aims at wise action, but a fool starts off in many directions.
25Foolish children bring grief to their fathers and bitter regrets to their mothers.
26It is not right to make an innocent person pay a fine; justice is perverted when good people are punished.
27Those who are sure of themselves do not talk all the time. People who stay calm have real insight. 28After all, even a fool may be thought wise and intelligent if he stays quiet and keeps his mouth shut.
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Proverbs 17
17
1Better a dry crust with peace
than a house full of feasting with strife. # Pr 15:17; 21:9,19; 25:24
2A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son
and share an inheritance among brothers.
3A crucible for silver, and a smelter for gold, # Pr 27:21
and the Lord is the tester of hearts. # 1Ch 29:17; Ps 26:2; Pr 16:2; 21:2; Is 48:10; Jr 17:10; Mal 3:3
4A wicked person listens to malicious talk; # Lit to lips of iniquity
a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
5The one who mocks the poor insults his Maker, # Pr 14:31; 21:13
and one who rejoices over calamity
will not go unpunished. # Jb 31:29; Pr 24:17; Lm 1:21-22; Ezk 25:6-7; 35:15; Ob 12
6Grandchildren are the crown of the elderly,
and the pride of sons is their fathers.
7Eloquent words are not appropriate on a fool’s lips;
how much worse are lies for a ruler.
8A bribe # Ex 23:8; Is 1:23; Am 5:12 seems like a magic stone to its owner;
wherever he turns, he succeeds. # Pr 18:16; 19:6; 21:14
9Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, # Pr 10:12; Jms 5:20; 1Pt 4:8
but whoever gossips about it separates friends. # Lv 19:16; Pr 11:13; 16:28
10A rebuke cuts into a perceptive person
more than a hundred lashes into a fool.
11An evil man seeks only rebellion;
a cruel messenger # Or a merciless angel #Ps 78:49 will be sent against him.
12Better for a man to meet a bear robbed of her cubs # 2Sm 17:8; Hs 13:8
than a fool in his foolishness.
13If anyone returns evil for good, # Ps 35:12; 109:5
evil will never depart from his house. # 2Sm 12:10
14To start a conflict is to release a flood;
stop the dispute before it breaks out. # Pr 20:3; 25:8
15Acquitting the guilty and condemning the just # Ex 23:7; Pr 17:26; 18:5; 24:23-24; Is 5:23 —
both are detestable to the Lord.
16Why does a fool have money in his hand
with no intention of buying wisdom? # Pr 4:5,7; 18:15; 23:23
17A friend loves at all times, # Ru 1:16; Pr 18:24; 27:10
and a brother is born for a difficult time.
18One without sense enters an agreement # Lit sense shakes hands
and puts up security for his friend. # Pr 6:1-5; 11:15; 22:26
19One who loves to offend loves strife; # Pr 29:22
one who builds a high threshold invites injury.
20One with a twisted mind will not succeed,
and one with deceitful speech will fall into ruin. # Jr 23:36
21A man fathers a fool to his own sorrow;
the father of a fool has no joy. # Pr 10:1; 17:25; 19:13; 23:24-25
22A joyful heart is good medicine,
but a broken spirit dries up the bones. # Ps 22:15; Pr 14:30; 15:13; 18:14
23A wicked man secretly takes a bribe # Pr 17:8
to subvert the course of justice. # Dt 16:19; Ps 15:5; Pr 18:5; Mc 3:11; 7:3
24Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive,
but a fool’s eyes # Ec 2:14 roam to the ends of the earth.
25A foolish son is grief to his father
and bitterness to the one who bore him. # Pr 10:1; 17:21; 19:13
26It is certainly not good to fine an innocent person
or to beat a noble for his honesty. # Or noble unfairly # Pr 17:15; 18:5; 24:23-24
27The intelligent person restrains his words, # Pr 10:19; Jms 1:19; 3:2
and one who keeps a cool head # Lit spirit
is a man of understanding.
28Even a fool is considered wise when he keeps silent,
discerning when he seals his lips. # Jb 13:5; Pr 10:19
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