Proverbs 24
1 May not you be jealous of people of evil and may not (you desire *Q(k)*) to be with them.
Do not envy evil people; do not desire to associate with them,
2 For violence it plots heart their and trouble lips their they speak.
because they are [constantly] thinking about acting violently, and whenever they speak [MTY], they talk about (causing trouble/hurting someone).
3 By wisdom it is built a house and by understanding it is established.
People make good houses (OR, families) by doing what is wise, and they make their houses (OR, families) strong by [heeding] good advice.
4 And by knowledge rooms they are filled all wealth precious and pleasant.
By using good sense, [they are able to buy] valuable and beautiful things and put them in the rooms of their houses.
5 A man wise [who is] in strength and a person of knowledge [is] making firm strength.
Being wise is better than being strong/powerful; those who know [many things can accomplish more] than those who are [very] strong.
6 For by wise directions you will make for yourself war and victory [is] in a multitude of counselor[s].
Leaders can fight battles if they have wise advisors, and they win those battles if they have many good advisors.
7 [are] high For a fool wisdom in the gate not he opens mouth his.
Foolish people cannot understand wise sayings/talk; at public meetings they are not [able to] say anything [that is useful].
8 [one who] plans To do evil him master of plots people will call.
Those who are [always] planning to do evil things will be called troublemakers.
9 A plan of foolishness [is] sin and [is] an abomination to humankind a mocker.
It is sinful to plan to do foolish things, and people hate those who make fun of [everything that is good].
10 You have shown yourself without courage in a day of trouble [is] narrow strength your.
If you [act as though] you are helpless when you have troubles, you are [truly very] weak.
11 Deliver [those being] taken to death and [those who] are staggering to the slaughter if you will restrain.
[If it is unjustly decided] that someone must be executed, [try hard to] rescue them [DOU].
12 If you will say here! not we knew this ¿ not [one who] weighs hearts - he does he perceive and [one who] guards life your he does he know? and will he repay? to a person according to work his.
If you say, “I did not know anything about it, [so (it is not my concern/I did not try to help him)],” remember that God knows what we have done, and he knows what we were thinking [IDM, RHQ], and he will certainly [RHQ] repay us as we deserve for what we have done or for not doing what we should have done.
13 Eat O son my honey for [it is] good and honey from [the] comb [is] sweet on palate your.
My child/son, eat honey, because it is good [for you]; the honey that drips from honeycombs tastes [very] sweet.
14 Thus - know! wisdom for self your if you find [it] and there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
Similarly, being wise is good for your soul; if you become wise, you will be [happy in] the future, and [God] will certainly [do for you what you are] confidently expecting him to do [LIT].
15 May not you lie in wait wicked [person] to [the] habitation of a righteous [person] may not you devastate resting place his.
Do not be like wicked people who [hide and] wait to break into the houses of righteous/good [people] and rob/steal things.
16 For seven [times] - he will fall a righteous [person] and he will rise and wicked [people] they will stumble in trouble.
[Even if] good people fall down seven/many times, they [always] stand/get up again, but when a disaster happens to wicked [people], it ruins/destroys them.
17 When falls (enemy your *Q(K)*) may not you rejoice and when stumbles he may not it rejoice heart your.
Do not be happy when something bad happens to one of your enemies; do not rejoice when he stumbles and falls,
18 Lest he should see Yahweh and it will be displeasing in view his and he will turn back from towards him anger his.
because Yahweh will know what you are thinking, and he will not like it, and [as a result] he will not punish that enemy of yours.
19 May not you fret yourself by evil-doers may not you be jealous of wicked [people].
Do not become angry/upset about those who do what is evil, and do not [SYN] envy them,
20 For - not it will belong a future to the evil [person] [the] lamp of wicked [people] it will be extinguished.
because [nothing good] will happen to wicked people; they are [like] a lamp that will soon be extinguished [MET].
21 Fear Yahweh O son my and [the] king with [those who] change may not you get involved.
My child/son, revere Yahweh and [also] honor the king, and do not associate with people who want to rebel against either of them,
22 For suddenly it will arise calamity their and [the] disaster of both of them who? [is] knowing.
because those people will suddenly experience disasters; and no one knows [RHQ] what great disasters that God or the king can cause to happen to them.
23 Also these [belong] to wise [people] to pay regard to face in judgment not [is] good.
Here are more things that wise [people] have said: It is wrong for judges to decide matters unfairly [IDM].
24 [one who] says - To a wicked [person] [are] righteous you they will curse him peoples they will denounce him nations.
If they say to people who are guilty, “You (are innocent/have not done something that is wrong),” [even] people in other nations will curse and despise them,
25 And for the [ones who] rebuke [them] it will be pleasant and on them it will come blessing of good thing[s].
but if judges say that guilty people must be punished, things will go well for those judges, and (they will receive blessings/God will bless them).
26 Lips he kisses [one who] bring back words right.
Those who answer others honestly show that they are truly their friends [IDM].
27 Establish on the outside - work your and make ready it in the field for yourself after and you will build house your.
First, do the work [that needs to be done] outside [your house], and prepare your fields, [and then plant things], and after you finish doing that, build your house.
28 May not you be a witness without cause in neighbor your and ¿ will you deceive with lips your.
[In the courtroom] do not testify against someone when you have no reason to do that, and do not [try to] deceive [people] by what you say [MTY].
29 May not you say just as he has done to me so I will do to him I will repay to the person according to deed his.
Do not say, “I will do to him what he did to me; I will pay him back for [the bad things that] he did to me.”
30 At [the] field of a person lazy I passed by and at [the] vineyard of a person lacking of heart.
One day I walked by the vineyards of a lazy man, a man who did not have good sense.
31 And there! it had grown up all of it - thorns they were covered surface its nettles and [the] wall of stones its it was broken down.
I was surprised to see that the fields were full of all kinds of thorny bushes, and the stone wall [around the garden] had (collapsed/fallen down).
32 And I saw I I set heart my I saw I received instruction.
When I saw that, I thought about it, and I learned this:
33 A little of sleep a little of slumber a little of - folding of hands to rest.
[If you spend a lot of time] sleeping and napping and folding your hands while you rest,
34 And it will come going about poverty your and poverti your like a man of shield.
[soon] you will become poor; [it will be as though] [PRS, SIM] a bandit who had a weapon in his hand [attacked you and stole all that you had].
