< 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 the 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 seeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
prudent to see: see distress: harm (and to hide *Q(K)*) and simple to pass and to fine
4 The reward of humility [and] the fear of the LORD [is] riches, and honour, and life.
consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life
5 Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the froward: he that keepeth 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 even 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 ruleth 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 soweth iniquity shall reap calamity: and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
to sow injustice (to reap *Q(k)*) evil: trouble and tribe: staff fury his to end: expend
9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth 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 ignominy shall cease.
to drive out: drive out to mock and to come out: come strife and to cease judgment and dishonor
11 He that loveth 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 [him that hath] knowledge, but he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.
eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously
13 The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be murdered 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 up 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 oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain, and] he that giveth to the rich, [cometh] only to want.
to oppress poor to/for to multiply to/for him to give: give to/for rich surely to/for need
17 Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine 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 thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.
for pleasant for to keep: guard them in/on/with belly: body your to establish: prepare together upon lips your
19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.
to/for to be in/on/with LORD confidence your to know you [the] day also you(m. s.)
20 Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge;
not to write to/for you (officer *Q(K)*) in/on/with counsel and knowledge
21 To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?
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 despoil of life those that despoil them.
for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life
24 Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; and with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:
not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come
25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
lest to teach/learn (way his *Q(K)*) and to take: recieve snare to/for soul: myself your
26 Be thou not one of them that strike 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 thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
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 thy fathers have set.
not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your
29 Seest thou 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