Proverbs 22
1 to choose name from riches many from silver: money and from gold favor pleasant
A fair name is better than much wealth, and good favour is above silver and gold.
2 rich and be poor to meet to make all their LORD
The rich and the poor meet together; but the Lord made them both.
3 prudent to see: see distress: harm (and to hide *Q(K)*) and simple to pass and to fine
An intelligent man seeing a bad man severely punished is himself instructed, but fools pass by and are punished.
4 consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life
The fear of the Lord is the offspring of wisdom, and wealth, and glory, and life.
5 thorn snare in/on/with way: conduct twisted to keep: guard soul his to remove from them
Thistles and snares are in perverse ways; but he that keeps his soul will refrain 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
7 rich in/on/with be poor to rule and servant/slave to borrow to/for man to borrow
The rich will rule over the poor, and servants will lend to their own masters.
8 to sow injustice (to reap *Q(k)*) evil: trouble and tribe: staff fury his to end: expend
He that sows wickedness shall reap troubles; and shall fully receive the punishment of his deeds. God loves a cheerful and liberal man; but [a man] shall fully prove the folly of his works.
9 pleasant eye he/she/it to bless for to give: give from food: bread his to/for poor
He that has pity on the poor shall himself be maintained; for he has given of his own bread to the poor. He that gives liberally secures victory an honour; but he takes away the life of them that posses [them].
10 to drive out: drive out to mock and to come out: come strife and to cease judgment and dishonor
Cast out a pestilent person from the council, and strife shall go out with him; for when he sits in the council he dishonours all.
11 to love: lover (pure *Q(K)*) heart favor lip: words his neighbor his king
The Lord loves holy hearts, and all blameless persons are acceptable with him: a king rules with his lips.
12 eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously
But the eyes of the Lord preserve discretion; but the transgressor despises [wise] words.
13 to say sluggish lion in/on/with outside in/on/with midst street/plaza to murder
The sluggard makes excuses, and says, [There is] a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.
14 pit deep lip be a stranger be indignant LORD (to fall: fall *Q(k)*) there
The mouth of a transgressor is a deep pit; and he that is hated of the Lord shall fall into it. Evil ways are before a man, and he does not like to turn away from them; but it is needful to turn aside from a perverse and bad way.
15 folly to conspire in/on/with heart youth tribe: staff discipline to remove her from him
Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are [then] far from him.
16 to oppress poor to/for to multiply to/for him to give: give to/for rich surely to/for need
He that oppresses the poor, increases his own substance, yet gives to the rich so as to make it less.
17 to stretch ear your and to hear: hear word wise and heart your to set: make to/for knowledge my
Incline thine ear to the words of wise men: hear also my word, and apply thine heart,
18 for pleasant for to keep: guard them in/on/with belly: body your to establish: prepare together upon lips your
that thou mayest know that they are good: and if thou lay them to heart, they shall also gladden thee on thy lips.
19 to/for to be in/on/with LORD confidence your to know you [the] day also you(m. s.)
That thy hope may be in the Lord, and he may make thy way known to thee.
20 not to write to/for you (officer *Q(K)*) in/on/with counsel and knowledge
And do thou too repeatedly record them for thyself on the table of thine heart, for 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
I therefore teach thee truth, and knowledge good to hear; that thou mayest answer words of truth to them that question thee.
22 not to plunder poor for poor he/she/it and not to crush afflicted in/on/with gate
Do no violence to the poor, for he is needy: neither dishonour the helpless [man] in the gates.
23 for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life
For the Lord will plead his cause, and thou shalt deliver thy soul in safety.
24 not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come
Be not companion to a furious man; neither lodge with a passionate man:
25 lest to teach/learn (way his *Q(K)*) and to take: recieve snare to/for soul: myself your
lest thou learn of his ways, and get snares to thy soul.
26 not to be in/on/with to blow palm in/on/with to pledge loan
Become not surety from respect of a man's person.
27 if nothing to/for you to/for to complete to/for what? to take: take bed your from underneath: under you
For if those have not whence to give compensation, they will take the bed [that is] under thee.
28 not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your
Remove not the old landmarks, which thy fathers 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
It is fit that an observant man and [one] diligent in his business should attend on kings, and not attend on slothful men.
