en_cepher - Pro 17 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ BETTER is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a 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 Yahuah 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: whithersoever it turns, it prospers.

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

¹⁰ A reproof enters more into a wise man than a 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 Yahuah.

¹⁶ Wherefore 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 froward 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 ruach 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 bore 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 ruach.

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