Proverbs 22
1 to choose name from riches many from silver: money and from gold favor pleasant
A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.
2 rich and be poor to meet to make all their LORD
The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
3 prudent to see: see distress: harm (and to hide *Q(K)*) and simple to pass and to fine
The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.
4 consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life
The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
5 thorn snare in/on/with way: conduct twisted to keep: guard soul his to remove from them
Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.
6 to dedicate to/for youth upon lip: word way: conduct his also for be old not to turn aside: depart from her
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
7 rich in/on/with be poor to rule and servant/slave to borrow to/for man to borrow
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
8 to sow injustice (to reap *Q(k)*) evil: trouble and tribe: staff fury his to end: expend
He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
9 pleasant eye he/she/it to bless for to give: give from food: bread his to/for poor
A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
10 to drive out: drive out to mock and to come out: come strife and to cease judgment and dishonor
Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.
11 to love: lover (pure *Q(K)*) heart favor lip: words his neighbor his king
He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.
12 eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously
The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.
13 to say sluggish lion in/on/with outside in/on/with midst street/plaza to murder
The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”
14 pit deep lip be a stranger be indignant LORD (to fall: fall *Q(k)*) there
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
15 folly to conspire in/on/with heart youth tribe: staff discipline to remove her from him
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
16 to oppress poor to/for to multiply to/for him to give: give to/for rich surely to/for need
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
17 to stretch ear your and to hear: hear word wise and heart your to set: make to/for knowledge my
Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise— apply your mind to my knowledge—
18 for pleasant for to keep: guard them in/on/with belly: body your to establish: prepare together upon lips your
for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.
19 to/for to be in/on/with LORD confidence your to know you [the] day also you(m. s.)
So that your trust may be in the LORD, I instruct you today—yes, you.
20 not to write to/for you (officer *Q(K)*) in/on/with counsel and knowledge
Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,
21 to/for to know you truth word truth: true to/for to return: reply word truth: true to/for to send: depart you
to show you true and reliable words, that you may soundly answer those who sent you?
22 not to plunder poor for poor he/she/it and not to crush afflicted in/on/with gate
Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
23 for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life
for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.
24 not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come
Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
25 lest to teach/learn (way his *Q(K)*) and to take: recieve snare to/for soul: myself your
or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
26 not to be in/on/with to blow palm in/on/with to pledge loan
Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
27 if nothing to/for you to/for to complete to/for what? to take: take bed your from underneath: under you
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
28 not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your
Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
29 to see man quick in/on/with work his to/for face: before king to stand not to stand to/for face: before obscure
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will be stationed in the presence of kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
