< Proverbs 9 >
1 Wisdom has built her house; she has prepared its seven pillars.
wisdom to build house: home her to hew pillar her seven
2 She has slaughtered her animals for meat; she has mixed her wine; and she has set her table.
to slaughter slaughter her to mix wine her also to arrange table her
3 She has sent out her servant girls with invitations. She calls out from the highest places of the town,
to send: depart maiden her to call: call out upon single/height height town
4 “Everybody who needs to learn, come and see me!” To people who don't have any sense she says,
who? simple to turn aside: depart here/thus lacking heart to say to/for him
5 “Come, eat my food, and drink the wine I have mixed.
to go: come! to feed on in/on/with food: bread my and to drink in/on/with wine to mix
6 Leave your foolish ways and you will live; follow the path that makes sense.”
to leave: forsake simple and to live and to bless in/on/with way: conduct understanding
7 If you correct a mocker all you get are insults; if you argue with the wicked all you get is abuse.
to discipline to mock to take: recieve to/for him dishonor and to rebuke to/for wicked blemish his
8 So don't argue with mockers or they'll only hate you; argue with the wise and they'll love you.
not to rebuke to mock lest to hate you to rebuke to/for wise and to love: lover you
9 Educate the wise and they'll become even wiser; teach those who live right and they will increase their learning.
to give: give to/for wise and be wise still to know to/for righteous and to add teaching
10 Honoring the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; knowledge of the Holy One brings insight.
beginning wisdom fear LORD and knowledge holy understanding
11 Through wisdom you'll have many more days, increasing the years of your life.
for in/on/with me to multiply day your and to add to/for you year life
12 If you are wise, you are the one to profit from it; if you scoff, you alone will have to suffer the consequences.
if be wise be wise to/for you and to mock to/for alone you to lift: bear
13 Stupidity is like a loud, ignorant woman who doesn't know anything.
woman stupidity to roar naivite and not to know what?
14 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the town,
and to dwell to/for entrance house: home her upon throne: seat height town
15 calling out to those passing by, going about their business,
to/for to call: call to to/for to pass way: journey [the] to smooth way their
16 “Everybody who needs to learn, come and see me!” To people who don't have any sense she says,
who? simple to turn aside: depart here/thus and lacking heart and to say to/for him
17 “Stolen water is sweet, and food eaten in secret tastes good!”
water to steal be sweet and food: bread secrecy be pleasant
18 But they don't know that the dead are there, that those she's invited are in the depths of the grave. (Sheol )
and not to know for shade there in/on/with unfathomable hell: Sheol to call: call to her (Sheol )