UKJV - Proverbs - 17

17:1  Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

17:2  A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

17:3  The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.

17:4  A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and a liar gives ear to a naughty tongue.

17:5  Whoso mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

17:6  Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

17:7  Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

17:8  A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that has it: anywhere it turns, it prospers.

17:9  He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.

17:10  A reproof enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

17:11  An evil man seeks only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

17:12  Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

17:13  Whoso rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

17:14  The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

17:15  He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

17:16  Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no heart to it?

17:17  A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

17:18  A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes guarantor in the presence of his friend.

17:19  He loves transgression that loves strife: and he that exalts his gate seeks destruction.

17:20  He that has a perverse heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.

17:21  He that bring forths a fool does it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.

17:22  A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

17:23  A wicked man takes a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

17:24  Wisdom is before him that has understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

17:25  A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

17:26  Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

17:27  He that has knowledge spares his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

17:28  Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.