< Proverbs 12 >

1 to love: lover discipline to love: lover knowledge and to hate argument stupid
Those who want to know [what is right to do] want to be (disciplined/corrected) when they do what is wrong; it is foolish to not want to be (corrected/told that what you did is wrong).
2 pleasant to promote acceptance from LORD and man plot be wicked
Yahweh is pleased with good people, but he condemns those who plan to harm [others].
3 not to establish: establish man in/on/with wickedness and root righteous not to shake
People do not become secure/safe by doing what is wicked; righteous [people] will be very safe and secure [LIT] like [MET] a tree that has deep roots.
4 woman: wife strength: worthy crown master: husband her and like/as rottenness in/on/with bone his be ashamed
A good wife is one who causes her husband to be greatly honored, but a wife who does things that cause her husband to be ashamed [will destroy him] like [SIM] cancer [destroys] his bones.
5 plot righteous justice counsel wicked deceit
What righteous [people] want to do is [to treat people] fairly; what wicked [people] want to do is to deceive people.
6 word wicked to ambush blood and lip upright to rescue them
What wicked [people] say is like a trap [MET] that kills [MTY] people [who pass by], but what righteous [people] say [MTY] rescues those whom [wicked people threaten to harm].
7 to overturn wicked and nothing they and house: home righteous to stand: stand
Wicked [people] will die [before they become old and we will see] them no more, but righteous people will live [for many years] and have many descendants.
8 to/for lip: according understanding his to boast: praise man and to twist heart to be to/for contempt
[People will] praise those who have good sense, but [people will] despise those (who are always thinking about doing evil things/whose thinking is twisted).
9 pleasant to dishonor and servant/slave to/for him from to honor: honour and lacking food: bread
It is better to be a humble/ordinary person who has only one servant than to think that you are very important while you have nothing to eat.
10 to know righteous soul: life animal his and compassion wicked cruel
Righteous people take care of their domestic animals, but wicked people act cruelly [toward their animals].
11 to serve: labour land: soil his to satisfy food: bread and to pursue worthless lacking heart
Farmers who work hard in their fields will [produce good crops] that will give them plenty to eat, but those who waste their time working on worthless projects are foolish.
12 to desire wicked net bad: evil and root righteous to give: give
Wicked [people] desire to take away what [other] evil people have, but [Yahweh] enables righteous/godly [people] to be steadfast and productive [MET].
13 in/on/with transgression lips snare bad: evil and to come out: come from distress righteous
Evil people are trapped by the evil things that they say [MTY], but righteous [people] escape from trouble.
14 from fruit lip man to satisfy good and recompense hand man (to return: return *Q(K)*) to/for him
People are rewarded for [the good things] that they say [to others], and people are [also] rewarded for the good work that they do [MTY].
15 way: conduct fool(ish) upright in/on/with eye his and to hear: hear to/for counsel wise
Foolish people [always] think that what they are doing is right; wise people heed [other people when they give them good] advice.
16 fool(ish) in/on/with day: today to know vexation his and to cover dishonor prudent
Foolish people quickly become angry when someone does something that they don’t like; but those who have good sense ignore it when others insult them.
17 to breathe faithfulness to tell righteousness and witness deception deceit
[In the courtroom], honest people say what is true, but untruthful/dishonest people tell [nothing but] lies.
18 there to speak rashly like/as thrust sword and tongue wise healing
What some people say [hurts people badly], as much as [SIM] a sword can; but what wise [people] say (heals [others’ souls]/comforts others).
19 lips truth: true to establish: establish to/for perpetuity and till to disturb tongue deception
When people tell [MTY] lies, others soon realize that what they said is not true [IDM]; but when people say what is true, others will remember that forever.
20 deceit in/on/with heart to plow/plot bad: evil and to/for to advise peace joy
Those who plan to do what is evil are always wanting to deceive [others], but things will go well for those who plan [to do] good things.
21 not to meet to/for righteous all evil: trouble and wicked to fill bad: evil
Bad things [usually] [HYP] do not happen to righteous [people], but wicked [people] always have troubles.
22 abomination LORD lips deception and to make: do faithfulness acceptance his
Yahweh detests those [MTY] who tell lies, but he is delighted with those who faithfully do what they promise that they will do.
23 man prudent to cover knowledge and heart fool to call: call out folly
Those with good sense do not reveal [all] that they know; foolish people show [clearly] by what they say that they (are ignorant/have not learned much).
24 hand sharp to rule (and slackness *L(bah)*) to be to/for taskworker
Those [SYN] who work hard become rulers [of others]; those who are lazy become slaves [of others.]
25 anxiety in/on/with heart man to bow her and word pleasant to rejoice her
When people are anxious/worried, they become depressed/dejected, but when others speak kindly to them, it causes them to be cheerful again.
26 to spy from neighbor his righteous and way: conduct wicked to go astray them
Godly/Righteous people try to [give good advice to] their friends (OR, try to make friends with others), but the manner in which wicked [people] live misleads their friends.
27 not to roast slackness wild game his and substance man precious sharp
Lazy people do not even [cook the meat of] the animals that they catch/kill, but those who work hard will acquire (OR, are like) a valuable treasure.
28 in/on/with way righteousness life and way: road path not death
Those who (live righteously/continually do what is right) are [walking] on the road to a long life; (it is not a road to death/they will not die when they are still young).

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