< Proverbs 23 >

1 WHEN thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
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 thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
and to set: put knife in/on/with throat your if master: men soul: appetite you(m. s.)
3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his and he/she/it food lie
4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
not be weary/toil to/for to enrich from understanding your to cease
5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
( 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 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
not to feed on [obj] food: bread bad: evil eye: appearance and not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
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 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
morsel your to eat to vomit her and to ruin word your [the] pleasant
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
in/on/with ear: hearing fool not to speak: speak for to despise to/for understanding speech your
10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into 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 mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
for to redeem: redeem their strong he/she/it to contend [obj] strife their with you
12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
to come (in): bring [emph?] to/for discipline: instruction heart your and ear your to/for word knowledge
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
not to withhold from youth discipline for to smite him in/on/with tribe: staff not to die
14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. (Sheol h7585)
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 thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
son: child my if be wise heart your to rejoice heart my also I
16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
and to exult kidney my in/on/with to speak: speak lips your uprightness
17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.
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 an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
that if: except if: except there end and hope your not to cut: eliminate
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
to hear: hear you(m. s.) son: child my and be wise and to bless in/on/with way: conduct heart your
20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
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 shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
for to imbibe and be vile to possess: poor and rags to clothe drowsiness
22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy 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 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
truth: true to buy and not to sell wisdom and discipline: instruction and understanding
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of 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 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
to rejoice father your and mother your and to rejoice to beget you
26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe 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 whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
for pit deep to fornicate and well narrow foreign
28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
also he/she/it like/as robber to ambush and to act treacherously in/on/with man to add
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of 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 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
to/for to delay upon [the] wine to/for to come (in): come to/for to search mixed drink
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
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 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
end his like/as serpent to bite and like/as serpent to pierce
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
eye your to see: see be a stranger and heart your to speak: speak perversity
34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon 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 have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
to smite me not be weak: ill to smite me not to know how to awake to add to seek him still

< Proverbs 23 >