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Proverbs 17

¹Better to eat a dry crust of bread with peace of mind than have a banquet in a house full of trouble.

²A shrewd servant will gain authority over a master's worthless son and receive a part of the inheritance.

³Gold and silver are tested by fire, and a person's heart is tested by the LORD.

⁴Evil people listen to evil ideas, and liars listen to lies.

⁵If 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.

⁶Grandparents are proud of their grandchildren, just as children are proud of their parents.

⁷Respected people do not tell lies, and fools have nothing worthwhile to say.

⁸Some people think a bribe works like magic; they believe it can do anything.

⁹If you want people to like you, forgive them when they wrong you. Remembering wrongs can break up a friendship.

¹⁰An intelligent person learns more from one rebuke than a fool learns from being beaten a hundred times.

¹¹Death will come like a cruel messenger to wicked people who are always stirring up trouble.

¹²It is better to meet a mother bear robbed of her cubs than to meet some fool busy with a stupid project.

¹³If you repay good with evil, you will never get evil out of your house.

¹⁴The start of an argument is like the first break in a dam; stop it before it goes any further.

¹⁵Condemning the innocent or letting the wicked go---both are hateful to the LORD.

¹⁶It does a fool no good to spend money on an education, because he has no common sense.

¹⁷Friends always show their love. What are relatives for if not to share trouble?

¹⁸Only someone with no sense would promise to be responsible for someone else's debts.

¹⁹To like sin is to like making trouble. If you brag all the time, you are asking for trouble.

²⁰Anyone who thinks and speaks evil can expect to find nothing good---only disaster.

²¹There is nothing but sadness and sorrow for parents whose children do foolish things.

²²Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.

²³Corrupt judges accept secret bribes, and then justice is not done.

²⁴An intelligent person aims at wise action, but a fool starts off in many directions.

²⁵Foolish children bring grief to their fathers and bitter regrets to their mothers.

²⁶It is not right to make an innocent person pay a fine; justice is perverted when good people are punished.

²⁷Those who are sure of themselves do not talk all the time. People who stay calm have real insight.

²⁸After all, even fools may be thought wise and intelligent if they stay quiet and keep their mouths shut.