Proverbs 17 · משלי

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than a house full of feasting with strife.

A wise servant shall control a son who acts shamefully, and shall share the inheritance among the brethren.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord tries the hearts.

A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

One who mocks the poor insults his maker: and one who is glad at calamity shall not go unpunished.

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

Haughty speech does not befit a churl: much less do lying lips a prince.

A bribe is a fair jewel to the eyes of him who dispenses it: wherever it turns it brings success.

He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates close friends.

A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred blows into a fool.

An evil man seeks only to be insolent: but a stern messenger shall be sent against him.

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

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

The beginning of strife is like letting out water: therefore leave off contention, before it breaks out.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them are abomination to the Lord.

Why is the purchase price of wisdom in the hand of a fool, seeing he has no sense?

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

A man who strikes the palm is void of understanding, in becoming surety in the presence of his friend.

He loves transgression that loves strife: and he that makes high his door seeks destruction.

He that has a crooked heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.

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

A merry heart is a good medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.

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

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

Neither is it good to punish an innocent man, nor to give blows to noble men for their integrity.

He that has knowledge spares his words: and a man of understanding is slow to anger.

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