Proverbs 17

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Proverbs 17 is a collection of twenty-eight sayings, most of them contrasts, on the themes of peace in the home, the testing of hearts, fools and friends, bribes and justice, and the tongue. It opens with a dry crust eaten in quiet being better than a feast with quarreling, and includes some of the book's most quoted lines: the LORD tests hearts as a furnace tests gold; whoever mocks the poor insults their Maker; a friend loves at all times; starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam; a joyful heart is good medicine; and even a fool who keeps silent is thought wise. Running through it is the conviction that the LORD sees what courts and crowds miss.

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Proverbs 17 is the kind of chapter that rewards reading slowly, one saying at a time, because it does not argue; it observes. It opens at the dinner table: better a dry crust eaten in peace than a house full of roast meat and shouting. It moves to the workshop, where silver goes into the crucible and gold into the furnace, and then says the LORD does the same with hearts. It walks through the village and notices the man who laughs at the poor, and tells him he is laughing at their Maker. It stops to admire old men surrounded by grandchildren. Then it goes to the gate, where the town's business was done, and watches the bribes change hands, the quarrels start like water finding a crack in a dam, the guilty acquitted and the innocent condemned, both of which, it says, the LORD detests. In the middle of all this sits the verse everyone knows, a friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity, and near the end the verse doctors quote, a joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. The chapter has a sharp eye for fools: the one who has money but no intention of buying wisdom, the one whose eyes wander to the ends of the earth, the one it is more dangerous to meet than a she-bear robbed of her cubs. Its last word is its funniest and its truest: even a fool is thought wise if he keeps his mouth shut.

핵심 본문

Proverbs 17:1-6 Proverbs 17:9-14 Proverbs 17:17 Proverbs 17:22 Proverbs 17:27-28 James 1:19

Historical and literary context

The chapter belongs to the main Solomonic collection, Proverbs 10 to 22, sayings attributed to Solomon and gathered over centuries for the instruction of young men entering public life. Its world is the village and the court: households where a servant can outrank a worthless son, gates where disputes were judged and bribes changed hands, and a wisdom tradition shared with Egypt, whose Instruction of Amenemope has close parallels. "Striking hands in pledge" was the gesture of guaranteeing another person's debt, warned against repeatedly in the book. The bear robbed of her cubs was a real danger in the hills of Israel, and the crucible and furnace were the technology of the metalworker.

How the chapter unfolds

The sayings are loosely grouped rather than argued. Verses 1 to 6 concern the household: quiet over feasting, the wise servant, the tester of hearts, the mocker of the poor, and grandchildren as a crown. Verses 7 to 15 turn to public life, with the fool, bribes, concealed offenses, rebuke, the bear and the fool, returning evil for good, quarrels, and corrupt verdicts. Verses 16 to 22 include the fool with money, the friend who loves at all times, the foolish pledge, and the joyful heart as medicine. Verses 23 to 28 close with bribes and justice again, the wandering eyes of the fool, the grief of a foolish son, restraint in speech, and the silent fool taken for wise.

Why this chapter matters

Verse 17 is the Bible's most quoted line on friendship and verse 22 its most quoted on the link between mood and health, cited by physicians and pastors alike. Verse 5, mocking the poor as an insult to their Maker, grounds the dignity of the poor in creation and is echoed in the New Testament. Verse 3, the LORD as tester of hearts, is a standard text on divine knowledge and on trials as refining. Verse 28 is the source of the proverb about fools who keep silent, and verse 14, abandoning a quarrel before it breaks out, is the wisdom tradition's best advice on conflict.

Interpretive tension to watch

Verse 8 says a bribe is a charm that brings success wherever its giver turns, an observation that sounds like approval until verse 23 condemns the bribe that perverts justice; the book describes how things work before it says how they should. Verse 9 praises concealing an offense while other proverbs praise open rebuke, and the reader must judge which applies. Verse 2, where a wise servant inherits alongside the sons, cuts against the social order it describes. And a chapter that makes a joyful heart good medicine also says the father of a fool has no joy, a reminder that the book's optimism is never guaranteed.

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Verse 1 prefers a dry crust in peace to a feast with strife. What would you give up for quiet in your home?
Verse 9 says concealing an offense promotes love; verse 10 says a rebuke goes deep in a discerning person. How do you decide when to cover something and when to say it?
The LORD is "the tester of hearts." What does a furnace do to metal, and what does that image say about hard seasons?

Study with context

Use this as a chapter guide, then press deeper into the text itself. The goal is to slow down observation, notice structure, and ask better questions before jumping to conclusions.

노트에 추가

1 Bättre en torr brödbit med ro än huset fullt av festmat och gräl. 2 Klok tjänare får råda över odåga till son och dela arvet med bröderna. 3 Degeln prövar silvret och ugnen guldet, Herren prövar hjärtan. 4 En ond människa lyssnar till onda tungor, en lögnare lånar sitt öra åt fördärvligt prat. 5 Den som hånar den fattige smädar hans Skapare, den som är skadeglad blir inte ostraffad. 6 Barnbarn är de gamlas krona, barnens stolthet är deras fäder. 7 Stora ord passar inte dåren, än mindre lögnaktigt tal en furste. 8 Mutan är som en amulett i givarens ögon, vart han än vänder sig har han framgång. 9 Den som skyler en synd främjar kärlek, den som ältar en sak skiljer vänner åt. 10 En tillrättavisning tar mer på den förståndige än hundra slag på dåren. 11 Upprorsmakaren vill bara ont, en grym budbärare ska sändas mot honom. 12 Hellre möta en björn som mist sina ungar än en dåre i hans oförnuft. 13 Om någon lönar gott med ont lämnar ondskan aldrig hans hus. 14 Att börja ett gräl är att öppna en dammlucka, sluta innan striden bryter ut. 15 Den som friar en brottsling och den som fördömer en rättfärdig är båda avskyvärda för Herren. 16 Vad hjälper pengar i dårens hand? Kan han köpa vishet när han saknar vett? 17 En väns kärlek består alltid, en broder föds för att hjälpa i nöd. 18 Utan vett är den som ger handslag och går i borgen för sin nästa. 19 Den som älskar synd älskar strid, den som gör sin port hög söker sin undergång. 20 Den som har falskt hjärta finner ingen lycka, den som har oärlig tunga faller i olycka. 21 Den som har en odåga till son får sorg, en dåres far har ingen glädje. 22 Glatt hjärta ger god läkedom, brutet mod suger märgen ur benen. 23 Den gudlöse tar fram mutor ur fickan för att vränga rättens vägar. 24 Den förståndige har visheten för ögonen, dårens blick går till jordens ände. 25 En dåraktig son är en grämelse för sin far och en bitter sorg för den mor som fött honom. 26 Att bötfälla den oskyldige är illa nog, men att slå ädla män strider mot all rätt. 27 Den som har vett spar sina ord, en förståndig man håller huvudet kallt. 28 Också dåren anses vis när han tiger, klok när han stänger sina läppar.

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