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Proverbs 17 📜 📕 ↷
Better a Dry Morsel in Quietness
1 Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with brawling.📜💬📚
2 A wise servant shall rule over foolish children, and divide inheritance among brethren.📜💬📚
3 As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so our Lord proveth the hearts.📜💬📚
4 The evil man obeyeth an unjust tongue: and the deceitful obeyeth lying lips.📜💬📚
5 He that despiseth the poor, upbraideth his maker: and he that rejoiceth at an other man's ruin, shall not be unpunished.📜💬📚
6 The crown of old men the children's children: and the glory of children their fathers.📜💬📚
7 Eloquent words become not a fool, nor lying lips a Prince.📜💬📚
8 A most grateful pearl, the expectation of him that expecteth: whither soever he turneth himself, he understandeth wisely.📜💬📚
9 He that concealeth offence, seeketh friendships: he that in other word repeateth it, separateth the confederate.📜💬📚
10 Reprehension doth more profit with a wiseman, than an hundred stripes with a fool.📜💬📚
11 An evil man always seeketh brawls: but a cruel angel shall be sent against him.📜💬📚
12 It is better to meet a bear when her young are taken away, than a fool trusting to himself in his own folly.📜💬📚
13 He that rendereth evil things for good, evil shall not depart from his house.📜💬📚
14 He that letteth water go, is the head of brawls: & before he suffer contumely, he forsaketh judgment.📜💬📚
15 He that justifieth the impious, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.📜💬📚
16 What doth it profit a fool to have riches, whereas he can not buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh ruin: and he that refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.📜💬📚
17 He loveth at all time that is a friend: and a brother is proved in distresses.📜💬📚
18 A foolish man will clap the hands, when he is surety for his friend.📜💬📚
19 He that meditateth discords, loveth brawls: and he that exalteth the door, seeketh ruin.📜💬📚
20 He that is of a perverse heart, shall not find good: and he that turneth his tongue, shall fall into evil.📜💬📚
21 A fool is born to his own ignominy: but neither shall the father rejoice in a fool.📜💬📚
22 A joyful mind maketh a flourishing age, a sorrowful spirit dryeth up the bones.📜💬📚
23 The impious receiveth gifts out of the bosom, that he may pervert the paths of judgment.📜💬📚
24 In the face of the prudent wisdom shineth: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth.📜💬📚
25 A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bare him.📜💬📚
26 It is not good to do hurt to the just: nor to strike the Prince, which judgeth right.📜💬📚
27 He that moderateth his words, is learned and prudent: and the learned man is of a precious spirit.📜💬📚
28 The fool also if he hold his peace, shall be reputed wise: and if he close his lips, a man of understanding.📜💬📚
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