Proverbs 17 - New Messianic Version Bible

¹ Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife.

² A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

³ The fining pot [is] for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] tries the hearts.

⁴ A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; [and] a liar gives ear to a naughty tongue.

⁵ Whoso mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: [and] he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

⁶ Children’s children [are] the crown of old men; and the glory of children [are] their fathers.

⁷ Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

⁸ A gift [is as] a precious stone in the eyes of him that has it: to wherever it turns, it prospers.

⁹ He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates [very] friends.

¹⁰ A reproof (rebuke; scolding) enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

¹¹ An evil [man] seeks only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

¹² Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

¹³ Whoso rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

¹⁴ The beginning of strife [is as] when one lets out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

¹⁵ He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, even they both [are] abomination to the Lord-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate].

¹⁶ For what reason [is there] a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he has] no heart [to it]?

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

¹⁸ A man void of understanding strikes hands, [and] becomes surety in the presence of his friend.

¹⁹ He loves transgression that loves strife: [and] he that exalts his gate seeks destruction.

²⁰ He that has a perverse (twisted) [habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition] heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.

²¹ He that begets a fool [does it] to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.

²² A merry heart does good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

²³ A wicked [man] takes a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

²⁴ Wisdom [is] before him that has understanding; but the eyes of a fool [are] in the ends of the earth.

²⁵ A foolish son [is] a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

²⁶ Also to punish the just [is] not good, [nor] to strike princes for equity.

²⁷ He that has knowledge spares his words: [and] a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

²⁸ Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: [and] he that shuts his lips [is esteemed] a man of understanding.