Proverbs 6
1 My son! If you have been guarantor for your friend, Have struck your hand for a stranger,
son: child my if to pledge to/for neighbor your to blow to/for be a stranger palm your
2 Have been snared with sayings of your mouth, Have been captured with sayings of your mouth,
to snare in/on/with word lip your to capture in/on/with word lip your
3 Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For you have come into the hand of your friend. Go, trample on yourself, and strengthen your friend,
to make: do this then son: child my and to rescue for to come (in): come in/on/with palm neighbor your to go: went to stamp and to be assertive neighbor your
4 Do not give sleep to your eyes, And slumber to your eyelids,
not to give: give sleep to/for eye your and slumber to/for eyelid your
5 Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
to rescue like/as gazelle from hand and like/as bird from hand fowler
6 Go to the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;
to go: went to(wards) ant sluggish to see: examine way: conduct her and be wise
7 Which has no captain, overseer, and ruler,
which nothing to/for her chief official and to rule
8 She prepares her bread in summer, She has gathered her food in harvest.
to establish: prepare in/on/with summer food: bread her to gather in/on/with harvest food her
9 Until when, O slothful one, do you lie? When do you arise from your sleep?
till how sluggish to lie down: lay down how to arise: rise from sleep your
10 A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,
little sleep little slumber little folding hand to/for to lie down: sleep
11 And your poverty has come as a traveler, And your want as an armed man.
and to come (in): come like/as to go: follow poverty your and need your like/as man shield
12 A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth,
man Belial: worthless man evil: wickedness to go: walk crookedness lip: word
13 Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,
to wink (in/on/with eye his *Q(K)*) to rub (in/on/with foot his *Q(K)*) to show in/on/with finger his
14 Contrariness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, He sends forth contentions.
perversity in/on/with heart his to plow/plot bad: evil in/on/with all time (contention *Q(K)*) to send: depart
15 Therefore his calamity comes suddenly, He is broken instantly—and no healing.
upon so suddenly to come (in): come calamity his suddenness to break and nothing healing
16 These six has YHWH hated, Indeed, seven [are] abominations to His soul:
six they(fem.) to hate LORD and seven (abomination *Q(K)*) soul: myself his
17 High eyes, False tongues, And hands shedding innocent blood,
eye to exalt tongue deception and hand to pour: kill blood innocent
18 A heart devising thoughts of vanity, Feet hastening to run to evil,
heart to plow/plot plot evil: wickedness foot to hasten to/for to run: run to/for distress: evil
19 A false witness [who] breathes out lies, And one sending forth contentions between brothers.
to breathe lie witness deception and to send: depart strife between brother: male-sibling
20 Keep, my son, the command of your father, And do not leave the law of your mother.
to watch son: child my commandment father your and not to leave instruction mother your
21 Bind them on your heart continually, Tie them on your neck.
to conspire them upon heart your continually to bind them upon neck your
22 In your going up and down, it leads you, In your lying down, it watches over you, And you have awoken—it talks [with] you.
in/on/with to go: walk you to lead [obj] you in/on/with to lie down: lay down you to keep: guard upon you and to awake he/she/it to muse you
23 For the command [is] a lamp, And the Law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,
for lamp commandment and instruction light and way: conduct life argument discipline
24 To preserve you from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
to/for to keep: guard you from woman bad: evil from smoothness tongue foreign
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, And do not let her take you with her eyelids.
not to desire beauty her in/on/with heart your and not to take: take you in/on/with eyelid her
26 For a harlot consumes to a cake of bread, And an adulteress hunts the precious soul.
for about/through/for woman to fornicate till talent food: bread and woman man: husband soul: life precious to hunt
27 Does a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burned?
to snatch up man fire in/on/with bosom: lap his and garment his not to burn
28 Does a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?
if to go: walk man upon [the] coal and foot his not to burn
29 So [is] he who has gone in to the wife of his neighbor, None who touches her is innocent.
so [the] to come (in): come to(wards) woman: wife neighbor his not to clear all [the] to touch in/on/with her
30 They do not despise the thief, When he steals to fill his soul when he is hungry,
not to despise to/for thief for to steal to/for to fill soul: appetite his for be hungry
31 And being found he repays sevenfold, He gives all the substance of his house.
and to find to complete sevenfold [obj] all substance house: home his to give: give
32 He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks heart, He who does it is destroying his soul.
to commit adultery woman lacking heart to ruin soul: myself his he/she/it to make: do her
33 He finds a stroke and shame, And his reproach is not wiped away,
plague and dishonor to find and reproach his not to wipe
34 For jealousy [is] the fury of a man, And he does not spare in a day of vengeance.
for jealousy rage great man and not to spare in/on/with day vengeance
35 He does not accept the appearance of any atonement, Indeed, he does not consent, Though you multiply bribes!
not to lift: kindness face: kindness all ransom and not be willing for to multiply bribe
