Proverbs - Chapter 17 - King James 2000
- Better is a dry morsel, with quietness, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.
- A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
- The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.
- A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
- Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
- Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children is their fathers.
- Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
- A bribe is as a magic stone in the eyes of him that gives it: wherever he turns, he prospers.
- He that covers over a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates close friends.
- A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.
- An evil man seeks only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
- Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
- Whosoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
- The beginning of strife is like releasing water: therefore leave off contention, before a quarrel starts.
- He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
- Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no heart for it?
- A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
- A man void of understanding gives pledge, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.
- He who loves transgression loves strife: and he who exalts his gate seeks destruction.
- He that has a crooked heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into calamity.
- He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.
- A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.
- A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.
- Wisdom is before him that has understanding; but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
- A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
- Also, to punish the just is not good, nor to flog princes for their integrity.
- He that has knowledge spares his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
- Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.