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, and loving favour 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 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 sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
4 consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life
The result of humility and the fear of the LORD is wealth, 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 path of the wicked; whoever 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. 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 who sows wickedness reaps trouble, 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
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food 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 strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
11 to love: lover (pure *Q(K)*) heart favor lip: words his neighbor his king
He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.
12 eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously
The LORD’s eyes watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
13 to say sluggish lion in/on/with outside in/on/with midst street/plaza to murder
The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed 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 LORD’s wrath will 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; 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
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
17 to stretch ear your and to hear: hear word wise and heart your to set: make to/for knowledge my
Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart 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 it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
19 to/for to be in/on/with LORD confidence your to know you [the] day also you(m. s.)
I teach you today, even you, so that your trust may be in the LORD.
20 not to write to/for you (officer *Q(K)*) in/on/with counsel and knowledge
Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of 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 teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?
22 not to plunder poor for poor he/she/it and not to crush afflicted in/on/with gate
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
23 for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life
for the LORD will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
24 not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come
Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man. Don’t associate with one who harbours anger,
25 lest to teach/learn (way his *Q(K)*) and to take: recieve snare to/for soul: myself your
lest you learn his ways and ensnare your soul.
26 not to be in/on/with to blow palm in/on/with to pledge loan
Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral 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 don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
28 not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.
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 serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.
