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Proverbs 17:2

Modern English Version

A wise servant will rule over a son who causes shame, and will share the inheritance among the brothers.

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He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.

He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

The favor of the king is toward a wise servant, but his wrath falls on him who brings shame.

Better is a dry crust with quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.

The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord is the tester of the heart.

He who plunders his father and evicts his mother is a shameful and disgraceful son.

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who no longer knows how to receive a warning.