Proverbs 22
1 More choice, is a name, than great riches, beyond silver and gold, is pleasant grace.
to choose name from riches many from silver: money and from gold favor pleasant
2 The rich and the poor, meet together, the maker of them all, is Yahweh.
rich and be poor to meet to make all their LORD
3 A prudent man, seeth calamity, and hideth himself, but, the simple, pass on, and suffer.
prudent to see: see distress: harm (and to hide *Q(K)*) and simple to pass and to fine
4 The reward of humility, is the reverence of Yahweh, riches, and honour, and life.
consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life
5 Thorns and snares, are in the way of the perverse, —he that guardeth 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 youth, in the direction of his duty, even when he becometh 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, over the poor, beareth rule, —and, slave, is the borrower 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 perversity, shall reap trouble, and, the rod of his wrath, shall be ready.
to sow injustice (to reap *Q(k)*) evil: trouble and tribe: staff fury his to end: expend
9 A benevolent eye, the same, shall be blessed, —because he hath given 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 Drive away the scoffer, that strife may depart, and quarrel, and contempt may cease.
to drive out: drive out to mock and to come out: come strife and to cease judgment and dishonor
11 Yahweh loveth the pure in heart, gracious are his lips, his friend is the king!
to love: lover (pure *Q(K)*) heart favor lip: words his neighbor his king
12 The eyes of Yahweh, watch over knowledge, therefore hath he overturned the words of the treacherous.
eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously
13 Saith the sluggard, A lion outside! Amidst the broadways, shall I be slain.
to say sluggish lion in/on/with outside in/on/with midst street/plaza to murder
14 A deep chasm, is the mouth of strange women, he with whom Yahweh is indignant, falleth there.
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 youth, 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 make increase for himself, giving to the rich, shall surely come 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 wise men, then, thy heart, wilt thou apply to my teaching;
to stretch ear your and to hear: hear word wise and heart your to set: make to/for knowledge my
18 For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well 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 in Yahweh may be thy trust, I have made them known to thee to-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 I not written for thee noble things, with counsels and knowledge:
not to write to/for you (officer *Q(K)*) in/on/with counsel and knowledge
21 To cause thee to know the meaning of faithful sayings, that thou mayest give back faithful sayings to them who ask 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 Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;
not to plunder poor for poor he/she/it and not to crush afflicted in/on/with gate
23 For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.
for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life
24 Do not have friendship with one given to anger, and, with a wrathful man, shall thou not enter in:
not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come
25 Lest thou learn his ways, and take 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 not of them who strike hands, of them who are sureties for debts:
not to be in/on/with to blow palm in/on/with to pledge loan
27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should one 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 Do not move back the ancient boundary, which thy father’s made.
not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your
29 Seest thou a man prompt in his business? before kings, shall he stand, he shall not stand before men who are obscure.
to see man quick in/on/with work his to/for face: before king to stand not to stand to/for face: before obscure
