Proverbs 23
1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,
for to dwell to/for to feed on with to rule to understand to understand [obj] which to/for face: before your
2 and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.
and to set: put knife in/on/with throat your if master: men soul: appetite you(m. s.)
3 Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his and he/she/it food lie
4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
not be weary/toil to/for to enrich from understanding your to cease
5 When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
( to fly *Q(K)*) eye your in/on/with him and nothing he for to make to make to/for him wing like/as eagle (to fly *Q(K)*) [the] heaven
6 Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
not to feed on [obj] food: bread bad: evil eye: appearance and not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his
7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
for like to calculate in/on/with soul his so he/she/it to eat and to drink to say to/for you and heart his not with you
8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
morsel your to eat to vomit her and to ruin word your [the] pleasant
9 Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
in/on/with ear: hearing fool not to speak: speak for to despise to/for understanding speech your
10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity and in/on/with land: country orphan not to come (in): come
11 for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
for to redeem: redeem their strong he/she/it to contend [obj] strife their with you
12 Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
to come (in): bring [emph?] to/for discipline: instruction heart your and ear your to/for word knowledge
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
not to withhold from youth discipline for to smite him in/on/with tribe: staff not to die
you(m. s.) in/on/with tribe: staff to smite him and soul his from hell: Sheol to rescue (Sheol h7585)
15 My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.
son: child my if be wise heart your to rejoice heart my also I
16 My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
and to exult kidney my in/on/with to speak: speak lips your uprightness
17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.
not be jealous heart your in/on/with sinner that if: except if: except in/on/with fear LORD all [the] day
18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
that if: except if: except there end and hope your not to cut: eliminate
19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
to hear: hear you(m. s.) son: child my and be wise and to bless in/on/with way: conduct heart your
20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
not to be in/on/with to imbibe wine in/on/with be vile flesh to/for them
21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
for to imbibe and be vile to possess: poor and rags to clothe drowsiness
22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
to hear: hear to/for father your this to beget you and not to despise for be old mother your
23 Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
truth: true to buy and not to sell wisdom and discipline: instruction and understanding
24 The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
(to rejoice to rejoice *Q(k)*) father righteous (and to beget *Q(K)*) wise (to rejoice *Q(K)*) in/on/with to rejoice
25 May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
to rejoice father your and mother your and to rejoice to beget you
26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
to give: give [emph?] son: child my heart your to/for me and eye your way: conduct my (to watch *Q(K)*)
27 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
for pit deep to fornicate and well narrow foreign
28 Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
also he/she/it like/as robber to ambush and to act treacherously in/on/with man to add
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
to/for who? woe! to/for who? pain! to/for who? (contention *Q(K)*) to/for who? complaint to/for who? wound for nothing to/for who? dullness eye
30 Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.
to/for to delay upon [the] wine to/for to come (in): come to/for to search mixed drink
31 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
not to see: see wine for to redden for to give: do (in/on/with cup *Q(K)*) eye his to go: went in/on/with uprightness
32 In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
end his like/as serpent to bite and like/as serpent to pierce
33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
eye your to see: see be a stranger and heart your to speak: speak perversity
34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:
and to be like/as to lie down: lay down in/on/with heart sea and like/as to lie down: lay down in/on/with head: top mast
35 “They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”
to smite me not be weak: ill to smite me not to know how to awake to add to seek him still
