Proverbs 22
1 to choose name from riches many from silver: money and from gold favor pleasant
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
2 rich and be poor to meet to make all their LORD
The rich and the poor meet together — the LORD is the maker of them all.
3 prudent to see: see distress: harm (and to hide *Q(K)*) and simple to pass and to fine
A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the thoughtless pass on, and are punished.
4 consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life
The reward of humility is the fear of the LORD, even riches, and honour, and life.
5 thorn snare in/on/with way: conduct twisted to keep: guard soul his to remove from them
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward; he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself 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 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 the lender.
8 to sow injustice (to reap *Q(k)*) evil: trouble and tribe: staff fury his to end: expend
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity; and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
9 pleasant eye he/she/it to bless for to give: give from food: bread his to/for poor
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
10 to drive out: drive out to mock and to come out: come strife and to cease judgment and dishonor
Cast out the scorner, and contention will go out; yea, strife and shame will cease.
11 to love: lover (pure *Q(K)*) heart favor lip: words his neighbor his king
He that loveth pureness of heart, that hath grace in his lips, the king shall be his friend.
12 eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously
The eyes of the LORD preserve him that hath knowledge, but He overthroweth the words of the faithless man.
13 to say sluggish lion in/on/with outside in/on/with midst street/plaza to murder
The sluggard saith: 'There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.'
14 pit deep lip be a stranger be indignant LORD (to fall: fall *Q(k)*) there
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
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 correction shall drive 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
One may oppress the poor, yet will their gain increase; one may give to the rich, yet will want come.
17 to stretch ear your and to hear: hear word wise and heart your to set: make to/for knowledge my
Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart unto 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 a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; let them be established altogether upon 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, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.
20 not to write to/for you (officer *Q(K)*) in/on/with counsel and knowledge
Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels 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 make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou mightest bring back words of truth to them that send thee?
22 not to plunder poor for poor he/she/it and not to crush afflicted in/on/with gate
Rob not the weak, because he is weak, neither crush the poor in the gate;
23 for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life
For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them.
24 not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come
Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; and with a wrathful man thou shalt not go;
25 lest to teach/learn (way his *Q(K)*) and to take: recieve snare to/for soul: myself your
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
26 not to be in/on/with to blow palm in/on/with to pledge loan
Be thou not of them that strike hands, or of them that are 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
If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
28 not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your
Remove not the ancient landmark, 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
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
