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Proverbs 17

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1 Better to eat a dry crust of bread with peace of mind than have a banquet in a house full of trouble.
1 Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.
2 A shrewd servant will gain authority over a master's worthless son and receive a part of the inheritance.
2 A prudent servant will rule over a disgraceful son and will share the inheritance as one of the family.
3 Gold and silver are tested by fire, and a person's heart is tested by the Lord.
3 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the heart.
4 Evil people listen to evil ideas, and liars listen to lies.
4 A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
5 If you make fun of poor people, you insult the God who made them. You will be punished if you take pleasure in someone's misfortune.
5 Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.
6 Grandparents are proud of their grandchildren, just as children are proud of their parents.
6 Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.
7 Respected people do not tell lies, and fools have nothing worthwhile to say.
7 Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool— how much worse lying lips to a ruler!
8 Some people think a bribe works like magic; they believe it can do anything.
8 A bribe is seen as a charm by the one who gives it; they think success will come at every turn.
9 If you want people to like you, forgive them when they wrong you. Remembering wrongs can break up a friendship.
9 Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
10 An intelligent person learns more from one rebuke than a fool learns from being beaten a hundred times.
10 A rebuke impresses a discerning person more than a hundred lashes a fool.
11 Death will come like a cruel messenger to wicked people who are always stirring up trouble.
11 Evildoers foster rebellion against God; the messenger of death will be sent against them.
12 It is better to meet a mother bear robbed of her cubs than to meet some fool busy with a stupid project.
12 Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool bent on folly.
13 If you repay good with evil, you will never get evil out of your house.
13 Evil will never leave the house of one who pays back evil for good.
14 The start of an argument is like the first break in a dam; stop it before it goes any further.
14 Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam; so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.
15 Condemning the innocent or letting the wicked go - both are hateful to the Lord.
15 Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent— the LORD detests them both.
16 It does a fool no good to spend money on an education, because he has no common sense.
16 Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom, when they are not able to understand it?
17 Friends always show their love. What are relatives for if not to share trouble?
17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
18 Only someone with no sense would promise to be responsible for someone else's debts.
18 One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for a neighbor.
19 To like sin is to like making trouble. If you brag all the time, you are asking for trouble.
19 Whoever loves a quarrel loves sin; whoever builds a high gate invites destruction.
20 Anyone who thinks and speaks evil can expect to find nothing good - only disaster.
20 One whose heart is corrupt does not prosper; one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble.
21 There is nothing but sadness and sorrow for parents whose children do foolish things.
21 To have a fool for a child brings grief; there is no joy for the parent of a godless fool.
22 Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.
22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
23 Corrupt judges accept secret bribes, and then justice is not done.
23 The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice.
24 An intelligent person aims at wise action, but a fool starts off in many directions.
24 A discerning person keeps wisdom in view, but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.
25 Foolish children bring grief to their fathers and bitter regrets to their mothers.
25 A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him.
26 It is not right to make an innocent person pay a fine; justice is perverted when good people are punished.
26 If imposing a fine on the innocent is not good, surely to flog honest officials is not right.
27 Those who are sure of themselves do not talk all the time. People who stay calm have real insight.
27 The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint, and whoever has understanding is even-tempered.
28 After all, even fools may be thought wise and intelligent if they stay quiet and keep their mouths shut.
28 Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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