12 Hatred stirs up strife,
    but (A)love covers all offenses.

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12 Hatred awakens contention,
    but love covers all transgressions.

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17 (A)Better is a dinner of herbs where love is
    than (B)a fattened ox and hatred with it.

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17 A vegetarian meal[a] served with love is better
    than a big, thick steak[b] with a plateful of[c] animosity.

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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 15:17 Lit. A meal of herbs
  2. Proverbs 15:17 Lit. a fattened ox
  3. Proverbs 15:17 The Heb. lacks a plateful of

Whoever mocks the poor (A)insults his Maker;
    he who is (B)glad at calamity will not go (C)unpunished.

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Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their maker,
    and whoever is happy about disaster
        will not go unpunished.

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17 (A)Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
    and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,
18 lest the Lord see it and be displeased,
    and turn away his anger from him.

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17 Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls;
    don’t let yourself be glad when he stumbles.
18 Otherwise the Lord will observe and disapprove,
    and he will turn his anger away from him.

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21 (A)If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat,
    and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,
22 for you will heap (B)burning coals on his head,
    and the Lord will reward you.

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21 If your enemy hungers, give him food to eat;
    and if he thirsts, give him water to drink.
22 For you’ll be piling burning coals of shame[a] on his head
    and the Lord will reward you.

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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 25:22 The Heb. lacks of shame