< Proverbs 22 >
1 A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
to choose name from riches many from silver: money and from gold favor pleasant
2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
rich and be poor to meet to make all their LORD
3 A prudent man forsees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
prudent to see: see distress: harm (and to hide *Q(K)*) and simple to pass and to fine
4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life
5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that does keep his soul shall be far from them.
thorn snare in/on/with way: conduct twisted to keep: guard soul his to remove from them
6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
to dedicate to/for youth upon lip: word way: conduct his also for be old not to turn aside: depart from her
7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
rich in/on/with be poor to rule and servant/slave to borrow to/for man to borrow
8 He that sows iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
to sow injustice (to reap *Q(k)*) evil: trouble and tribe: staff fury his to end: expend
9 He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor.
pleasant eye he/she/it to bless for to give: give from food: bread his to/for poor
10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
to drive out: drive out to mock and to come out: come strife and to cease judgment and dishonor
11 He that loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
to love: lover (pure *Q(K)*) heart favor lip: words his neighbor his king
12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor.
eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously
13 The slothful man says, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
to say sluggish lion in/on/with outside in/on/with midst street/plaza to murder
14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
pit deep lip be a stranger be indignant LORD (to fall: fall *Q(k)*) there
15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
folly to conspire in/on/with heart youth tribe: staff discipline to remove her from him
16 He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to lack.
to oppress poor to/for to multiply to/for him to give: give to/for rich surely to/for need
17 Bow down your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart unto my knowledge.
to stretch ear your and to hear: hear word wise and heart your to set: make to/for knowledge my
18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall likewise be fitted in your lips.
for pleasant for to keep: guard them in/on/with belly: body your to establish: prepare together upon lips your
19 That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to you this day, even to you.
to/for to be in/on/with LORD confidence your to know you [the] day also you(m. s.)
20 Have not I written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
not to write to/for you (officer *Q(K)*) in/on/with counsel and knowledge
21 That I might make you know the certainty of the words of truth; that you might answer the words of truth to them that send unto you?
to/for to know you truth word truth: true to/for to return: reply word truth: true to/for to send: depart you
22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
not to plunder poor for poor he/she/it and not to crush afflicted in/on/with gate
23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life
24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go:
not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come
25 Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul.
lest to teach/learn (way his *Q(K)*) and to take: recieve snare to/for soul: myself your
26 Be not you one of them that shake hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
not to be in/on/with to blow palm in/on/with to pledge loan
27 If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
if nothing to/for you to/for to complete to/for what? to take: take bed your from underneath: under you
28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.
not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your
29 See you a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
to see man quick in/on/with work his to/for face: before king to stand not to stand to/for face: before obscure