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Proverbs 17

than a house filled with feasts of strife.
2  and in the midst of brothers he will share his inheritance.
3 is for the silver, and a furnace is for the gold, but Yahweh will test hearts.
4  and the liar gives heed to the tongue of mischief.
5  he who rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.
6 are[fn] and the glory of children is their fathers.
7 [fn] is not becoming a fool,[fn] is[fn] for a ruler.
8 is a stone of magic in the eyes of its owner;[fn][fn] he will turn, he will prosper.
9  but he who waits on a matter will alienate a friend.
10  deeper than one hundred blows to a fool.
11  and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
12 May a man meet a she-bear robbed of offspring and not a fool in his folly.
13 For he who returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.
14 Like the release of water is the beginning of strife; before it breaks out, stop the quarrel.
15  the two of them are both abominations of Yahweh.
16 is this? A price in the hand of a fool, in order to buy wisdom where[fn] there is no[fn]
17 [fn], but a brother is born for adversity.
18 [fn][fn] he becomes security before his neighbor.
19  he who builds his high thresholds seeks destruction.
20 [fn] will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.
21 there is trouble for him; the father of a fool will not rejoice.
22  but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.
23  in order to pervert the ways of justice.
24 his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth.[fn]
25 is the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.
26  nor to flog nobles for uprightness.
27  and a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
28 [fn] he who closes his lips is intelligent.

?:? Literally “sons of sons”

?:? Literally “A lip of fineness”

?:? Literally “only for”

?:? Literally “lip of deceit”

?:? Or “master”

?:? Literally “to all which”

?:? Hebrew “and”

?:? Literally “heart”

?:? Hebrew “time”

?:? Literally “heart”

?:? Literally “pledges a hand”

?:? Or “mind”

?:? Or “land”

?:? Literally “wise, he shall be considered”

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