Proverbs 22
1 A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
to choose name from riches many from silver: money and from gold favor pleasant
2 The rich and the poor have this in common: YHWH is the maker of them all.
rich and be poor to meet to make all their LORD
3 The shrewd see danger and take cover, but the naive keep on going and suffer for it.
prudent to see: see distress: harm (and to hide *Q(K)*) and simple to pass and to fine
4 The result of humility and the fear of YHWH is wealth, honor, and life.
consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life
5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.
thorn snare in/on/with way: conduct twisted to keep: guard soul his to remove from them
6 Train 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 rule over the poor. 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 who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will fail. God blesses a cheerful and generous person, but the vanity of his deeds he will bring to an end.
to sow injustice (to reap *Q(k)*) evil: trouble and tribe: staff fury his to end: expend
9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
pleasant eye he/she/it to bless for to give: give from food: bread his to/for poor
10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
to drive out: drive out to mock and to come out: come strife and to cease judgment and dishonor
11 He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king's friend.
to love: lover (pure *Q(K)*) heart favor lip: words his neighbor his king
12 The eyes of YHWH watch over knowledge; but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously
13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside. I will be killed in the streets."
to say sluggish lion in/on/with outside in/on/with midst street/plaza to murder
14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under YHWH's wrath will fall into it.
pit deep lip be a stranger be indignant LORD (to fall: fall *Q(k)*) there
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
folly to conspire in/on/with heart youth tribe: staff discipline to remove her from him
16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
to oppress poor to/for to multiply to/for him to give: give to/for rich surely to/for need
17 The words of the wise: Incline your ear and hear my words, and apply your heart to my instruction.
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, if all of them are ready on 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 YHWH, I teach you today, even you.
to/for to be in/on/with LORD confidence your to know you [the] day also you(m. s.)
20 Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,
not to write to/for you (officer *Q(K)*) in/on/with counsel and knowledge
21 To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent 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 Do not exploit the poor, because he is poor; and do not crush the needy in court;
not to plunder poor for poor he/she/it and not to crush afflicted in/on/with gate
23 for YHWH will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life
24 Do not befriend a hot-tempered man, and do not associate with one who harbors anger:
not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come
25 lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.
lest to teach/learn (way his *Q(K)*) and to take: recieve snare to/for soul: myself your
26 Do not be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.
not to be in/on/with to blow palm in/on/with to pledge loan
27 If you do not have means 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 Do not move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.
not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your
29 Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won't serve obscure 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
