Proverbs 17:7
Lexham English Bible
Footnotes
- Proverbs 17:7 Literally “A lip of fineness”
- Proverbs 17:7 Literally “only for”
- Proverbs 17:7 Literally “lip of deceit”
Proverbs 17:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 Excess speech is not becoming to a fool;
still less is false speech to a ruler.[a]
Footnotes
- 17.7 Or a noble
Proverbs 17:10
Lexham English Bible
10 A rebuke strikes him who understands
deeper than one hundred blows to a fool.
Proverbs 17:10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
10 A rebuke strikes deeper into a discerning person
than a hundred blows into a fool.
Proverbs 17:12
Lexham English Bible
12 May a man meet a she-bear robbed of offspring
and not a fool in his folly.
Proverbs 17:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 Better to meet a she-bear robbed of its cubs
than to confront a fool immersed in folly.(A)
Proverbs 17:16
Lexham English Bible
16 Why is this? A price in the hand of a fool,
in order to buy wisdom where[a] there is no sense.[b]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 17:16 Hebrew “and”
- Proverbs 17:16 Literally “heart”
Proverbs 17:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 Why should fools have a price in hand
to buy wisdom when they have no mind to learn?
Proverbs 17:24-25
Lexham English Bible
24 He who understands sets his face toward wisdom,
but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth.[a]
25 A grief to his father is the child of a fool,
and bitterness to her who bore him.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 17:24 Or “land”
Proverbs 17:24-25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
24 The discerning person looks to wisdom,
but the eyes of a fool to the ends of the earth.(A)
25 Foolish children are a grief to their father
and bitterness to her who bore them.(B)
Proverbs 17:28
Lexham English Bible
28 Even a fool who keeps silent shall be considered wise;[a]
he who closes his lips is intelligent.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 17:28 Literally “wise, he shall be considered”
Proverbs 17:28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
28 Even fools who keep silent are considered wise;
when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent.(A)
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