Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 17

This is a parallel-text biblical edition presenting Proverbs chapter 17 simultaneously in four versions: the King James Version (with Strong's Concordance reference numbers), the Septuagint (ancient Greek), the Hebrew Masoretic text (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The work belongs to the tradition of interlinear or polyglot biblical scholarship, designed to facilitate comparison across canonical textual traditions. The chapter consists of 28 discrete wisdom sayings covering themes of family, speech, wealth, foolishness, and moral conduct — including the well-known aphorisms that a dry morsel with peace surpasses a feast with strife (v.1), that a merry heart acts as medicine while a broken spirit dries the bones (v.22), and that even a fool who stays silent may be counted wise (v.28). A distinctive feature is the KJV column's inline Strong's numbers, which allow readers to trace every word back to its Hebrew or Greek lexical root, making the text useful for word-study and translation comparison rather than devotional reading alone. The Septuagint column notably contains several expansions and variant readings not present in the Hebrew — for instance, verse 6 adds a line about the faithful man and the world's wealth — reflecting the scholarly awareness that the Greek tradition diverges meaningfully from the Masoretic source. This resource is primarily aimed at students of biblical languages, textual criticism, or comparative theology who want to examine how a single chapter was rendered across the major pre-modern scriptural traditions.

Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 17

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