Proverbs 26
1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so, unbecoming to a dullard is honour.
like/as snow in/on/with summer and like/as rain in/on/with harvest so not lovely to/for fool glory
2 As a sparrow in wandering, as a swallow in flying, so, a causeless curse, shall not alight.
like/as bird to/for to wander like/as swallow to/for to fly so curse for nothing (to/for him *Q(K)*) to come (in): come
3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of dullards.
whip to/for horse bridle to/for donkey and tribe: staff to/for back fool
4 Do not answer a dullard, according to his folly, lest, even thou thyself, become like him;
not to answer fool like/as folly his lest be like to/for him also you(m. s.)
5 Answer a dullard according to his folly, lest he become wise in his own eyes.
to answer fool like/as folly his lest to be wise in/on/with eye his
6 One who cutteth off feet, one who drinketh down wrong, is he who sendeth a message by the hand of a dullard.
to cut off foot violence to drink to send: depart word in/on/with hand fool
7 Useless are the legs of the lame, and a proverb, in the mouth of a dullard.
to languish leg from lame and proverb in/on/with lip fool
8 Like tying a stone to a sling, so, is he that giveth honour, to a dullard.
like/as to constrain stone in/on/with sling so to give: give to/for fool glory
9 A brier cometh into the hand of a drunken-man, a proverb into the mouth of dullards.
thistle to ascend: rise in/on/with hand drunken and proverb in/on/with lip fool
10 [As] an archer who woundeth every thing, [so] one who hireth a dullard, and a drunkard crossing the sea.
archer to bore all and to hire fool and to hire to pass
11 As, a dog, returneth onto his own vomit, a dullard, repeateth his folly.
like/as dog to return: return upon vomit his fool to repeat in/on/with folly his
12 Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eye, —more hope of a dullard, than of him!
to see: see man wise in/on/with eye his hope to/for fool from him
13 Saith the sluggard, A roaring lion in the road! A tearing lion in the midst of the broadways.
to say sluggish lion in/on/with way: road lion between [the] street/plaza
14 The door, turneth on its hinges, and, the sluggard, upon his bed.
[the] door to turn: turn upon hinge her and sluggish upon bed his
15 The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
to hide sluggish hand his in/on/with dish be weary to/for to return: return her to(wards) lip his
16 Wiser is the sluggard in his own eyes, than, seven persons, who can answer with judgment.
wise sluggish in/on/with eye his from seven to return: reply taste
17 As he who layeth hold of the ears of a dog, is a passer-by, who giveth vent to his wrath over a quarrel, not his!
to strengthen: hold in/on/with ear dog to pass: bring be angry upon strife not to/for him
18 As a madman throwing firebrands, arrows and death,
like/as to amaze [the] to shoot missile arrow and death
19 So, is a man who deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Was not, I, in sport?
so man to deceive [obj] neighbor his and to say not to laugh I
20 Without wood a fire is quenched, and, where there is no tattler, strife is hushed.
in/on/with end tree: wood to quench fire and in/on/with nothing to grumble be quiet strife
21 Black coal to burning blocks, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man, for kindling strife.
coal to/for coal and tree: wood to/for fire and man (contention *Q(K)*) to/for to scorch strife
22 the words of a tattler, are dainties, they, therefore go down into the chambers of the inner man.
word to grumble like/as to swallow and they(masc.) to go down chamber belly: body
23 Dross silver overlaid upon earthenware, so are burning lips, with a mischievous heart:
silver: money dross to overlay upon earthenware lips to burn/pursue and heart bad: evil
24 With his lips, the hater dissembleth, but, within himself, he layeth up deceit:
(in/on/with lips his *Q(K)*) to alienate to hate and in/on/with entrails: among his to set: put deceit
25 Though he make gracious his voice, do not trust him, for, seven abominations, are in his heart:
for be gracious voice his not be faithful in/on/with him for seven abomination in/on/with heart his
26 Hatred may clothe itself with guile, his wickedness shall be disclosed in the convocation.
to cover hating in/on/with guile to reveal: reveal distress: evil his in/on/with assembly
27 He that diggeth a pit, thereinto, shall fall, and, he that rolleth a stone, upon himself, shall it return.
to pierce pit: grave in/on/with her to fall: fall and to roll stone to(wards) him to return: return
28 A false tongue, hateth them who are crushed by it, and, a flattering mouth, worketh occasion of stumbling.
tongue deception to hate crushed his and lip smooth to make ruin
