17:1
Better a mouthful of dry bread with peace than a house filled with quarrelsome sacrifices.
17:2
A shrewd servant comes off better than an unworthy child, he will share the inheritance with the brothers.
17:3
A furnace for silver, a foundry for gold, but Yahweh for the testing of hearts!
17:4
An evil-doer pays heed to malicious talk, a liar listens to a slanderous tongue.
17:5
To mock the poor is to insult the Creator, no one who laughs at distress will go unpunished.
17:6
The crown of the aged is their children's children; the children's glory is their father.
17:7
Fine words do not become the foolish, false words become a prince still less.
17:8
A gift works like a talisman for one who holds it: it brings prosperity at every turn.
17:9
Whoever covers an offence promotes love, whoever again raises the matter divides friends.
17:10
A reproof makes more impression on a person of understanding than a hundred strokes on a fool.
17:11
The wicked person thinks of nothing but rebellion, but a cruel messenger will be sent to such a one.
17:12
Rather come on a bear robbed of her cubs than on a fool in his folly.
17:13
Disaster will never be far from the house of one who returns evil for good.
17:14
As well unleash a flood as start a dispute; desist before the quarrel breaks out.
17:15
To absolve the guilty and condemn the upright, both alike are abhorrent to Yahweh.
17:16
What good is money in the hand of a fool? To buy wisdom with it? The desire is not there.
17:17
A friend is a friend at all times, it is for adversity that a brother is born.
17:18
Whoever offers guarantees lacks sense and goes surety for a neighbour.
17:19
The double-dealer loves sin, the proud courts ruin.
17:20
The tortuous of heart finds no happiness, the perverse of speech falls into misery.
17:21
He who fathers a stupid child does so to his sorrow, the father of a fool knows no joy.
17:22
A glad heart is excellent medicine, a depressed spirit wastes the bones away.
17:23
Under cover of his cloak a bad man takes a gift to pervert the course of justice.
17:24
The intelligent has wisdom there before him, but the eyes of a fool range to the ends of the earth.
17:25
A foolish child is a father's sorrow, and the grief of her who gave the child birth.
17:26
To fine the upright is indeed a crime, to strike the noble is an injustice.
17:27
Whoever can control the tongue knows what knowledge is, someone of understanding keeps a cool temper.
17:28
If the fool holds his tongue, he may pass for wise; if he seals his lips, he may pass for intelligent.
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