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Proverbs 17 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:1 - Better is a morsel with pleasure in peace, than a house full of many good things and unjust sacrifices, with strife.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:2 - A wise servant shall have rule over foolish masters, and shall divide portions among brethren.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:3 - As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, so are choice hearts with the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:4 - A bad man hearkens to the tongue of transgressors: but a righteous man attends not to false lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:5 - He that laughs at the poor provokes him that made him; and he that rejoices at the destruction of another shall not be held guiltless: but he that has compassion shall find mercy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:6 - Children's children are the crown of old men; and their fathers are the glory of children. (LXX 17:6a) The faithful has the whole world full of wealth; but the faithless not even a farthing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:7 - Faithful lips will not suit a fool; nor lying lips a just man.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:8 - Instruction is to them that use it a gracious reward: and whithersoever it may turn, it shall prosper.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:9 - He that conceals injuries seeks love; but he that hates to hide them separates friends and [fn]kindred.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:10 - A threat breaks down the heart of a wise man; but a fool, though scourged, understands not.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:11 - Every bad man stirs up strifes: but the Lord will send out against him an unmerciful messenger.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:12 - Care may befall a man of understanding; but fools will meditate evils.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:13 - Whoso rewards evil for good, evil shall not be removed from his house.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:14 - Rightful rule gives power to words; but sedition and strife precede poverty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:15 - He that pronounces the unjust just, and the just unjust, is unclean and abominable with God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:16 - Why has the fool wealth? for a senseless man will not be able to purchase wisdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:17 - Have thou a friend for every time, and let brethren be useful in distress; for on this account are they born.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:18 - A foolish man applauds and rejoices over himself, as he also that becomes surety would make himself responsible for his own friends.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:19 - A lover of sin rejoices in strifes;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:20 - and the hard-hearted man [fn]comes not in for good. A man of a changeful tongue will fall into mischiefs;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:21 - and the heart of a fool is grief to its possessor. A father rejoices not over an uninstructed son; but a wise son gladdens his mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:22 - A glad heart promotes health; but the bones of a sorrowful man dry up.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:23 - The ways of a man who unjustly receives gifts in his bosom do not prosper; and an ungodly man perverts the ways of righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:24 - The countenance of a wise man is sensible; but the eyes of a fool go to the ends of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:25 - A foolish son is a cause of anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:26 - It is not right to punish a righteous man, nor is it holy to plot against righteous princes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:27 - He that forbears to utter a hard word is discreet, and a patient man is wise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:28 - Wisdom shall be imputed to a fool who asks after wisdom: and he who holds his peace shall seem to be sensible.
BES Footnotes
Comp. Heb.
Or, meets not with good men.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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