Proverbs 23
1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, Diligently consider that which [is] before you,
for to dwell to/for to feed on with to rule to understand to understand [obj] which to/for face: before your
2 And you have put a knife to your throat, If you [are] a man of appetite.
and to set: put knife in/on/with throat your if master: men soul: appetite you(m. s.)
3 Have no desire to his delicacies, seeing it [is] lying food.
not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his and he/she/it food lie
4 Do not labor to make wealth, Cease from your own understanding, Do you cause your eyes to fly on it? Then it is not.
not be weary/toil to/for to enrich from understanding your to cease
5 For wealth makes wings to itself, It flies to the heavens as an eagle.
( 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 Do not eat the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his delicacies,
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 has thought in his soul, so he [is]. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, And his heart [is] not with you.
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 You vomit up your morsel you have eaten, And have marred your words that [are] sweet.
morsel your to eat to vomit her and to ruin word your [the] pleasant
9 Do not speak in the ears of a fool, For he treads on the wisdom of your words.
in/on/with ear: hearing fool not to speak: speak for to despise to/for understanding speech your
10 Do not remove a border of ancient times, And do not enter into 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] strong, He pleads their cause with you.
for to redeem: redeem their strong he/she/it to contend [obj] strife their with you
12 Bring your heart to instruction, And your ear to sayings of knowledge.
to come (in): bring [emph?] to/for discipline: instruction heart your and ear your to/for word knowledge
13 Do not withhold discipline from a youth, When you strike him with a rod he does not die.
not to withhold from youth discipline for to smite him in/on/with tribe: staff not to die
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 your heart has been wise, My heart rejoices, even mine,
son: child my if be wise heart your to rejoice heart my also I
16 And my reins exult when your lips speak uprightly.
and to exult kidney my in/on/with to speak: speak lips your uprightness
17 Do not let your heart be envious at sinners, But—in the fear of YHWH all the day.
not be jealous heart your in/on/with sinner that if: except if: except in/on/with fear LORD all [the] day
18 For is there a posterity? Then your hope is not cut off.
that if: except if: except there end and hope your not to cut: eliminate
19 Hear, my son, and be wise, And make your heart blessed 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 Do not become drunk with wine, Among gluttonous ones 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 glutton become poor, And drowsiness clothes with rags.
for to imbibe and be vile to possess: poor and rags to clothe drowsiness
22 Listen to your father, who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she has become old.
to hear: hear to/for father your this to beget you and not to despise for be old mother your
23 Buy truth, and do not sell, 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 rejoices greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoices in 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 Your father and your mother rejoice, Indeed, she bearing you is joyful.
to rejoice father your and mother your and to rejoice to beget you
26 Give, my son, your heart to me, And let your eyes watch 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 harlot [is] a deep ditch, And a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
for pit deep to fornicate and well narrow foreign
28 She also, as catching prey, lies in wait, And she increases the treacherous among men.
also he/she/it like/as robber to ambush and to act treacherously in/on/with man to add
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaint? Who has wounds without cause? Who has 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 Those lingering by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.
to/for to delay upon [the] wine to/for to come (in): come to/for to search mixed drink
31 Do not see wine when it shows itself red, When it gives its color in the cup, It goes up and down through the upright.
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 Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, And it stings as a viper.
end his like/as serpent to bite and like/as serpent to pierce
33 Your eyes see strange women, And your heart speaks perverse things.
eye your to see: see be a stranger and heart your to speak: speak perversity
34 And you have been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on 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 struck me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I 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
