"Pastor Reginald C.A. Miles, New Jersey

Proverb 16

1 BETTER is§ a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of good chear with strife.
2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
3 ║║The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD trieth the hearts.
4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips: and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
5 **Whoso mocketh the poor, reproacheth his maker; and he that is glad at calamities, shall not be unpunished.
6 ††Childrens children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children are their fathers.
7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool; much less do lying lips a prince.
8 ‡‡A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it; whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
9 §§He that covereth a transgression, findeth love; but he that repeateth a matter, separateth very friends.
10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man, than an hundred stripes into a fool.
11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
12 Let† a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
13 Whoso‡ rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore§ leave off contention before it be meddled with.
15 ║He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old and New Testament: Translation (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2012), Pr 17:1–28.