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The Book of Proverbs 17

17 It is better for someone to have a little stale food to eat while living peacefully

than for someone to live in a house where people frequently eat large meals while arguing with each other.

2 An insightful slave will rule over his master’s disgraceful son.

People will consider that slave to be one of his master’s sons,

and he will inherit some of what his master’s sons inherit.

3 People use crucibles and furnaces to test and refine silver and gold.

Yahweh tests what people are thinking in a similar manner.

4 People who act evilly listen carefully when people speak what is sinful;

people who lie pay attention when people speak what destroys others.

5 People who ridicule poor people despise Yahweh, who made them;

Yahweh will certainly punish people who rejoice when other people experience disastrous things.

6 Old people are proud of their grandchildren,

and children are proud of their parents.

7 It is not fitting for worthless people to speak eloquently.

It is even less fitting for royal officials to speak falsely!

8 People who pay bribes think that bribes are magical;

they think that everything they do will be successful.

9 People who want to love forgive people who wrong them,

but people who repeatedly mention how someone wronged them cause friends to stop being friends.

10 Rebuking causes understanding people to learn

more than beating stupid people a hundred times with a stick causes them to learn.

11 Evil people only want to rebel,

so a merciless messenger will come and punish them.

12 It would be better to meet a female bear that is furious because someone stole her cubs

than to meet stupid people while they are acting foolishly!

13 If people react to experiencing what is good by doing what is evil,

then what is evil will continually affect their families.

14 When people start arguing with each other, it is as difficult to stop as it is to stop water that is leaking out of something,

so prevent yourself from arguing before you start to argue.

15 There are people who acquit guilty people,

and there are people who condemn innocent people;

Yahweh detests both types of people.

16 How useless it is for stupid people to try to pay money in order to become wise

when they are unable to think!

17 A friend loves you all the time,

and relatives exist in order to help other relatives when disastrous things happen.

18 People who do not think wisely agree to pay someone else’s loan

and even guarantee to pay the loan in front of people whom they know.

19 People who love to sin also love to cause people to argue;

people who brag a lot cause others to destroy them.

20 People who think deceitfully will never experience any good things,

and bad things will happen to people who speak deceitfully.

21 Stupid people grieve their parents.

Indeed, worthless people will not cause their fathers to be joyful.

22 People who feel happy will heal,

but depressed people will be unhealthy.

23 People secretly bribe wicked judges

so that they judge unjustly.

24 Understanding people concentrate on what is wise,

but stupid people cannot concentrate on anything.

25 Stupid children grieve their fathers

and make their mothers miserable.

26 Punishing innocent people is surely wrong,

and beating royal officials is also wrong.

27 People who refrain from speaking unnecessarily are knowledgeable,

and people who remain calm are understanding people.

28 People will think even foolish people are wise if they do not speak.

Indeed, people who refrain from speaking are understanding people.

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