Proverbs 22
1 to choose name from riches many from silver: money and from gold favor pleasant
A good name is better than great riches: and good favour is above silver and gold.
2 rich and be poor to meet to make all their LORD
The rich and poor have met one another: the Lord is the maker of them both.
3 prudent to see: see distress: harm (and to hide *Q(K)*) and simple to pass and to fine
The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed on, and suffered loss.
4 consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life
The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory and life.
5 thorn snare in/on/with way: conduct twisted to keep: guard soul his to remove from them
Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul departeth 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
It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even 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 ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him that lendeth.
8 to sow injustice (to reap *Q(k)*) evil: trouble and tribe: staff fury his to end: expend
He that soweth iniquity shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.
9 pleasant eye he/she/it to bless for to give: give from food: bread his to/for poor
He that is inclined to mercy shall be blessed: for of his bread he hath given to the poor. He that maketh presents shall purchase victory and honour: but he carrieth away the souls of the receivers.
10 to drive out: drive out to mock and to come out: come strife and to cease judgment and dishonor
Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.
11 to love: lover (pure *Q(K)*) heart favor lip: words his neighbor his king
He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.
12 eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously
The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge: and the words of the unjust are overthrown.
13 to say sluggish lion in/on/with outside in/on/with midst street/plaza to murder
The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.
14 pit deep lip be a stranger be indignant LORD (to fall: fall *Q(k)*) there
The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.
15 folly to conspire in/on/with heart youth tribe: staff discipline to remove her from him
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.
16 to oppress poor to/for to multiply to/for him to give: give to/for rich surely to/for need
He that oppresseth the poor, to increase his own riches, shall himself give to one that is richer, and shall be in need.
17 to stretch ear your and to hear: hear word wise and heart your to set: make to/for knowledge my
Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine:
18 for pleasant for to keep: guard them in/on/with belly: body your to establish: prepare together upon lips your
Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:
19 to/for to be in/on/with LORD confidence your to know you [the] day also you(m. s.)
That thy trust may be in the Lord, wherefore I have also shewn it to thee this day.
20 not to write to/for you (officer *Q(K)*) in/on/with counsel and knowledge
Behold I have described it to thee three manner of ways, in thoughts 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
That I might shew thee the certainty, and the words of truth, to answer out of these to them that sent 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, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:
23 for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life
Because the Lord will judge his cause, and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul.
24 not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come
Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:
25 lest to teach/learn (way his *Q(K)*) and to take: recieve snare to/for soul: myself your
Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.
26 not to be in/on/with to blow palm in/on/with to pledge loan
Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:
27 if nothing to/for you to/for to complete to/for what? to take: take bed your from underneath: under you
For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there, that he should take the covering from thy bed?
28 not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your
Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.
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
Hast thou seen a man swift in his work? he shall stand before kings, and shall not be before those that are obscure.
