Proverbs 22
1 to choose name from riches many from silver: money and from gold favor pleasant
More choice, is a name, than great riches, beyond silver and gold, is pleasant grace.
2 rich and be poor to meet to make all their LORD
The rich and the poor, meet together, the maker of them all, is Yahweh.
3 prudent to see: see distress: harm (and to hide *Q(K)*) and simple to pass and to fine
A prudent man, seeth calamity, and hideth himself, but, the simple, pass on, and suffer.
4 consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life
The reward of humility, is the reverence of Yahweh, 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 perverse, —he that guardeth his soul, shall be 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 youth, in the direction of his duty, even when he becometh 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, over the poor, beareth rule, —and, slave, is the borrower to the lender.
8 to sow injustice (to reap *Q(k)*) evil: trouble and tribe: staff fury his to end: expend
He that soweth perversity, shall reap trouble, and, the rod of his wrath, shall be ready.
9 pleasant eye he/she/it to bless for to give: give from food: bread his to/for poor
A benevolent eye, the same, shall be blessed, —because he hath given 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
Drive away the scoffer, that strife may depart, and quarrel, and contempt may cease.
11 to love: lover (pure *Q(K)*) heart favor lip: words his neighbor his king
Yahweh loveth the pure in heart, gracious are his lips, his friend is the king!
12 eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously
The eyes of Yahweh, watch over knowledge, therefore hath he overturned the words of the treacherous.
13 to say sluggish lion in/on/with outside in/on/with midst street/plaza to murder
Saith the sluggard, A lion outside! Amidst the broadways, shall I be slain.
14 pit deep lip be a stranger be indignant LORD (to fall: fall *Q(k)*) there
A deep chasm, is the mouth of strange women, he with whom Yahweh is indignant, falleth there.
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 youth, 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
He that oppresseth the poor, to make increase for himself, giving to the rich, shall surely come to want.
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 wise men, then, thy heart, wilt thou apply to my teaching;
18 for pleasant for to keep: guard them in/on/with belly: body your to establish: prepare together upon lips your
For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips.
19 to/for to be in/on/with LORD confidence your to know you [the] day also you(m. s.)
That in Yahweh may be thy trust, I have made them known to thee to-day, even to thee.
20 not to write to/for you (officer *Q(K)*) in/on/with counsel and knowledge
Have I not written for thee noble things, with 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
To cause thee to know the meaning of faithful sayings, that thou mayest give back faithful sayings to them who ask thee.
22 not to plunder poor for poor he/she/it and not to crush afflicted in/on/with gate
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;
23 for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life
For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.
24 not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come
Do not have friendship with one given to anger, and, with a wrathful man, shall thou not enter in:
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 take a snare to thy soul.
26 not to be in/on/with to blow palm in/on/with to pledge loan
Be not of them who strike hands, of them who 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 nothing to pay, why should one take away thy bed from under thee?
28 not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your
Do not move back the ancient boundary, which thy father’s made.
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 prompt in his business? before kings, shall he stand, he shall not stand before men who are obscure.
