< Proverbs 6 >

1 My son, suppose you have pledged to guarantee your neighbor's debt, or you have shaken hands in agreement with a stranger,
son: child my if to pledge to/for neighbor your to blow to/for be a stranger palm your
2 then you've trapped yourself by what you promised, you've been caught by what you said.
to snare in/on/with word lip your to capture in/on/with word lip your
3 So this is what you have to do. You need to get out of it, because you've put yourself in that person's power. Go to your neighbor in all humility and ask him to release you from the commitment.
to make: do this then son: child my and to rescue for to come (in): come in/on/with palm neighbor your to go: went to stamp and to be assertive neighbor your
4 Don't delay, saying that you'll sleep on it. Don't rest until you've done it.
not to give: give sleep to/for eye your and slumber to/for eyelid your
5 Get out of it like a gazelle escaping from a trap, like a bird from a bird-catcher's net.
to rescue like/as gazelle from hand and like/as bird from hand fowler
6 Go and observe the ants, you slacker! Learn from what they do and become wise.
to go: went to(wards) ant sluggish to see: examine way: conduct her and be wise
7 They don't have a leader, an officer, or a ruler,
which nothing to/for her chief official and to rule
8 yet they work hard during the summer getting their food, gathering what they need during the harvest.
to establish: prepare in/on/with summer food: bread her to gather in/on/with harvest food her
9 So how long are you going to lie there, you slacker? When are you going to get up from your sleep?
till how sluggish to lie down: lay down how to arise: rise from sleep your
10 You may say, “Please, just a little more sleep, a little longer snooze, a little more folding of the arms to rest”—
little sleep little slumber little folding hand to/for to lie down: sleep
11 and poverty will attack you like a robber, destitution like an armed warrior.
and to come (in): come like/as to go: follow poverty your and need your like/as man shield
12 Rebellious and wicked people go around telling lies,
man Belial: worthless man evil: wickedness to go: walk crookedness lip: word
13 winking slyly, giving sneaky foot gestures, rudely pointing with their fingers.
to wink (in/on/with eye his *Q(K)*) to rub (in/on/with foot his *Q(K)*) to show in/on/with finger his
14 Their warped minds plot evil schemes; they're always causing trouble.
perversity in/on/with heart his to plow/plot bad: evil in/on/with all time (contention *Q(K)*) to send: depart
15 As a result, disaster falls suddenly on such people; in just a moment they're destroyed without hope of healing.
upon so suddenly to come (in): come calamity his suddenness to break and nothing healing
16 There are six things that the Lord hates, seven things that he absolutely detests:
six they(fem.) to hate LORD and seven (abomination *Q(K)*) soul: myself his
17 arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that murder the innocent,
eye to exalt tongue deception and hand to pour: kill blood innocent
18 a mind that plots evil schemes, feet that hurriedly run to do wrong,
heart to plow/plot plot evil: wickedness foot to hasten to/for to run: run to/for distress: evil
19 a false witness that speaks lies, those who caused arguments in families.
to breathe lie witness deception and to send: depart strife between brother: male-sibling
20 My son, pay attention to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching.
to watch son: child my commandment father your and not to leave instruction mother your
21 Keep them always in mind. Tie them around your neck.
to conspire them upon heart your continually to bind them upon neck your
22 They will lead you as you walk along; they will watch over you as you sleep; when you wake up they will talk with you.
in/on/with to go: walk you to lead [obj] you in/on/with to lie down: lay down you to keep: guard upon you and to awake he/she/it to muse you
23 For the instruction is a lamp, and the teaching is a light. The correction that comes from discipline is the way to life.
for lamp commandment and instruction light and way: conduct life argument discipline
24 It will protect you from an evil woman and the seductive words of a prostitute.
to/for to keep: guard you from woman bad: evil from smoothness tongue foreign
25 Don't let your mind lust after her beauty, or let her hypnotize you with her fluttering eyelashes.
not to desire beauty her in/on/with heart your and not to take: take you in/on/with eyelid her
26 You can buy a prostitute for the price of a loaf of bread, but adultery with another man's wife can cost you your life.
for about/through/for woman to fornicate till talent food: bread and woman man: husband soul: life precious to hunt
27 Can you put fire in your lap and not burn your clothes?
to snatch up man fire in/on/with bosom: lap his and garment his not to burn
28 Can you walk on hot coals and not scorch your feet?
if to go: walk man upon [the] coal and foot his not to burn
29 It's the same for anyone who sleeps with another man's wife. No one who touches her will remain unpunished.
so [the] to come (in): come to(wards) woman: wife neighbor his not to clear all [the] to touch in/on/with her
30 People don't condemn a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he's hungry.
not to despise to/for thief for to steal to/for to fill soul: appetite his for be hungry
31 But if he's caught, he has to pay back seven times what he stole, even if it means handing over everything he has in his house.
and to find to complete sevenfold [obj] all substance house: home his to give: give
32 Any man who commits adultery with a woman has no sense; he who does so destroys himself.
to commit adultery woman lacking heart to ruin soul: myself his he/she/it to make: do her
33 He will be wounded and dishonored. His disgrace will never be removed.
plague and dishonor to find and reproach his not to wipe
34 For jealousy makes a husband furious, and he won't hold back when he takes revenge.
for jealousy rage great man and not to spare in/on/with day vengeance
35 He refuses any compensation, and won't be paid off, however big the amount.
not to lift: kindness face: kindness all ransom and not be willing for to multiply bribe

< Proverbs 6 >