Proverbs 17:8-10

The Message

⁸ Receiving a gift is like getting a rare gemstone;
    any way you look at it, you see beauty refracted.

⁹ Overlook an offense and bond a friendship;
    fasten on to a slight and—good-bye, friend!

¹⁰ A quiet rebuke to a person of good sense
    does more than a whack on the head of a fool.