Proverbs 23
1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider well what is before thee;
for to dwell to/for to feed on with to rule to understand to understand [obj] which to/for face: before your
2 For thou wilt put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man given to appetite!
and to set: put knife in/on/with throat your if master: men soul: appetite you(m. s.)
3 Long not for his dainties. For they are deceitful meat.
not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his and he/she/it food lie
4 Toil not to become rich; Cease from this, thy wisdom.
not be weary/toil to/for to enrich from understanding your to cease
5 Wilt thou let thine eyes fly toward them? They are gone! For riches truly make to themselves wings; They fly away like the eagle toward heaven.
( 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 Eat not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, And long not for his dainties;
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 thinketh in his heart, so is he. “Eat and drink!” saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.
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 The morsel, which thou hast eaten, thou shalt vomit up; And thou wilt have thrown away thy sweet words.
morsel your to eat to vomit her and to ruin word your [the] pleasant
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
in/on/with ear: hearing fool not to speak: speak for to despise to/for understanding speech your
10 Remove not the ancient landmark, And enter not into the 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 avenger is mighty; He will maintain their cause against thee.
for to redeem: redeem their strong he/she/it to contend [obj] strife their with you
12 Apply thy heart to instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.
to come (in): bring [emph?] to/for discipline: instruction heart your and ear your to/for word knowledge
13 Withhold not correction from a child; If thou beat him with the rod, he will 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 thy heart be wise, My heart shall rejoice, even mine;
son: child my if be wise heart your to rejoice heart my also I
16 Yea, my reins shall exult, When thy lips speak right things.
and to exult kidney my in/on/with to speak: speak lips your uprightness
17 Let not thy heart envy sinners, But continue thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long;
not be jealous heart your in/on/with sinner that if: except if: except in/on/with fear LORD all [the] day
18 For surely there shall be a reward, And thine expectation shall not be cut off.
that if: except if: except there end and hope your not to cut: eliminate
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise; And let thy heart go forward 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 Be not thou among winebibbers, And riotous eaters 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 the glutton shall come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
for to imbibe and be vile to possess: poor and rags to clothe drowsiness
22 Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
to hear: hear to/for father your this to beget you and not to despise for be old mother your
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; Buy wisdom and instruction and understanding.
truth: true to buy and not to sell wisdom and discipline: instruction and understanding
24 The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice; Yea, he who begetteth a wise child shall have joy 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 Let thy father and thy mother have joy; Yea, let her that bore thee rejoice!
to rejoice father your and mother your and to rejoice to beget you
26 My son, give me thy heart, And let thine eyes observe 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; Yea, a strange woman is a narrow pit.
for pit deep to fornicate and well narrow foreign
28 Like a robber she lieth in wait, And increaseth 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 hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who anxiety? Who wounds without cause? Who dimness 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 They that tarry long at the wine; They that go in to seek mixed wine.
to/for to delay upon [the] wine to/for to come (in): come to/for to search mixed drink
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly.
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 At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
end his like/as serpent to bite and like/as serpent to pierce
33 Thine eyes will look upon strange women, And thy heart will utter perverse things.
eye your to see: see be a stranger and heart your to speak: speak perversity
34 Yea, thou shalt be as one that lieth down in the midst of the sea, And as one that lieth down upon 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 have stricken me [[shalt thou say]], —I suffered no pain! They have beaten me, —I felt it not! When shall I awake? I will 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
