Proverbs - Chapter 17 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Better to eat a dry crust of bread with peace of mind than have a banquet in a house full of trouble.
  • 2. A shrewd servant will gain authority over a master's worthless son and receive a part of the inheritance.
  • 3. Gold and silver are tested by fire, and a person's heart is tested by the LORD.
  • 4. Evil people listen to evil ideas, and liars listen to lies.
  • 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.
  • 6. Grandparents are proud of their grandchildren, just as children are proud of their parents.
  • 7. Respected people do not tell lies, and fools have nothing worthwhile to say.
  • 8. Some people think a bribe works like magic; they believe it can do anything.
  • 9. If you want people to like you, forgive them when they wrong you. Remembering wrongs can break up a friendship.
  • 10. An intelligent person learns more from one rebuke than a fool learns from being beaten a hundred times.
  • 11. Death will come like a cruel messenger to wicked people who are always stirring up trouble.
  • 12. It is better to meet a mother bear robbed of her cubs than to meet some fool busy with a stupid project.
  • 13. If you repay good with evil, you will never get evil out of your house.
  • 14. The start of an argument is like the first break in a dam; stop it before it goes any further.
  • 15. Condemning the innocent or letting the wicked go---both are hateful to the LORD.
  • 16. It does a fool no good to spend money on an education, because he has no common sense.
  • 17. Friends always show their love. What are relatives for if not to share trouble?
  • 18. Only someone with no sense would promise to be responsible for someone else's debts.
  • 19. To like sin is to like making trouble. If you brag all the time, you are asking for trouble.
  • 20. Anyone who thinks and speaks evil can expect to find nothing good---only disaster.
  • 21. There is nothing but sadness and sorrow for parents whose children do foolish things.
  • 22. Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.
  • 23. Corrupt judges accept secret bribes, and then justice is not done.
  • 24. An intelligent person aims at wise action, but a fool starts off in many directions.
  • 25. Foolish children bring grief to their fathers and bitter regrets to their mothers.
  • 26. It is not right to make an innocent person pay a fine; justice is perverted when good people are punished.
  • 27. Those who are sure of themselves do not talk all the time. People who stay calm have real insight.
  • 28. After all, even fools may be thought wise and intelligent if they stay quiet and keep their mouths shut.
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