Proverbs 20
1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
to mock [the] wine to roar strong drink and all to wander in/on/with him not be wise
2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
roaring like/as lion terror king be angry him to sin soul: life his
3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
glory to/for man cessation from strife and all fool(ish) to quarrel
4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
from autumn sluggish not to plow/plot (and to ask *Q(K)*) in/on/with harvest and nothing
5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
water deep counsel in/on/with heart man and man understanding to draw (up/out) her
6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
abundance man to call: call out man: anyone kindness his and man faithful who? to find
7 The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
to go: walk in/on/with integrity his righteous blessed son: child his after him
8 A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
king to dwell upon throne judgment to scatter in/on/with eye his all bad: evil
9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
who? to say to clean heart my be pure from sin my
10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
stone: weight and stone: weight ephah and ephah abomination LORD also two their
11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
also in/on/with deed his to recognize youth if pure and if upright work his
12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.
ear to hear: hear and eye to see: see LORD to make also two their
13 Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
not to love: lover sleep lest to possess: poor to open eye your to satisfy food: bread
14 It is nil, it is nil, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
bad: harmful bad: harmful to say [the] to buy and be gone to/for him then to boast: boast
15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
there gold and abundance jewel and article/utensil preciousness lips knowledge
16 Take his garment that is guarantor for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
to take: take garment his for to pledge be a stranger and about/through/for (foreign *Q(K)*) to pledge him
17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
sweet to/for man food: bread deception and after to fill lip his gravel
18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
plot in/on/with counsel to establish: establish and in/on/with counsel to make battle
19 He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.
to reveal: reveal counsel to go: went slander and to/for to open wide lip: words his not to pledge
20 Whoso curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
to lighten father his and mother his to put out lamp his (in/on/with pupil *Q(K)*) darkness
21 An inheritance may be got hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
inheritance (to dismay *Q(K)*) in/on/with first and end her not to bless
22 Say not you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.
not to say to complete bad: evil to await to/for LORD and to save to/for you
23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
abomination LORD stone: weight and stone: weight and balance deceit not pleasant
24 Man's activities are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
from LORD step great man and man what? to understand way: conduct his
25 It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
snare man to blurt holiness and after vow to/for to enquire
26 A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.
to scatter wicked king wise and to return: return upon them wheel
27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
lamp LORD breath man to search all chamber belly: abdomen
28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne supported by mercy.
kindness and truth: faithful to watch king and to support in/on/with kindness throne his
29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.
beauty youth strength their and glory old greyheaded
30 The blueness of a wound cleanses away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
wound wound (cosmetic *Q(K)*) in/on/with bad: evil and wound chamber belly: abdomen
