< Proverbs 22 >
1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold.
to choose name from riches many from silver: money and from gold favor pleasant
2 The rich and the poor meet together. Jehovah is the maker of them all.
rich and be poor to meet to make all their LORD
3 A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself, but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
prudent to see: see distress: harm (and to hide *Q(K)*) and simple to pass and to fine
4 The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah is riches and honor and life.
consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life
5 Thorns and snares are in the way of a perverse man. He who keeps his soul shall be far from them.
thorn snare in/on/with way: conduct twisted to keep: guard soul his to remove from them
6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.
to dedicate to/for youth upon lip: word way: conduct his also for be old not to turn aside: depart from her
7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
rich in/on/with be poor to rule and servant/slave to borrow to/for man to borrow
8 He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
to sow injustice (to reap *Q(k)*) evil: trouble and tribe: staff fury his to end: expend
9 He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.
pleasant eye he/she/it to bless for to give: give from food: bread his to/for poor
10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out, yea, strife and reproach will cease.
to drive out: drive out to mock and to come out: come strife and to cease judgment and dishonor
11 He who loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips, the king will be his friend.
to love: lover (pure *Q(K)*) heart favor lip: words his neighbor his king
12 The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the treacherous man.
eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously
13 The sluggard says, There is a lion outside. I shall be slain in the streets.
to say sluggish lion in/on/with outside in/on/with midst street/plaza to murder
14 The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall in it.
pit deep lip be a stranger be indignant LORD (to fall: fall *Q(k)*) there
15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
folly to conspire in/on/with heart youth tribe: staff discipline to remove her from him
16 He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, and he who gives to a rich man, comes only to want.
to oppress poor to/for to multiply to/for him to give: give to/for rich surely to/for need
17 Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart to my knowledge.
to stretch ear your and to hear: hear word wise and heart your to set: make to/for knowledge my
18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.
for pleasant for to keep: guard them in/on/with belly: body your to establish: prepare together upon lips your
19 That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.
to/for to be in/on/with LORD confidence your to know you [the] day also you(m. s.)
20 Have I not written to thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge,
not to write to/for you (officer *Q(K)*) in/on/with counsel and knowledge
21 to make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou may carry back words of truth to those who send thee?
to/for to know you truth word truth: true to/for to return: reply word truth: true to/for to send: depart you
22 Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.
not to plunder poor for poor he/she/it and not to crush afflicted in/on/with gate
23 For Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.
for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life
24 Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man,
not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come
25 lest thou learn this ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
lest to teach/learn (way his *Q(K)*) and to take: recieve snare to/for soul: myself your
26 Be thou not one of those who strike hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.
not to be in/on/with to blow palm in/on/with to pledge loan
27 If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
if nothing to/for you to/for to complete to/for what? to take: take bed your from underneath: under you
28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your
29 See thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.
to see man quick in/on/with work his to/for face: before king to stand not to stand to/for face: before obscure