Proverbs 22
1 to choose name from riches many from silver: money and from gold favor pleasant
A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold — good grace.
2 rich and be poor to meet to make all their LORD
Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all [is] Jehovah.
3 prudent to see: see distress: harm (and to hide *Q(K)*) and simple to pass and to fine
The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished.
4 consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life
The end of humility [is] the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life.
5 thorn snare in/on/with way: conduct twisted to keep: guard soul his to remove from them
Thorns — snares [are] in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is 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
Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not 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 ruleth, And a servant [is] the borrower to the lender.
8 to sow injustice (to reap *Q(k)*) evil: trouble and tribe: staff fury his to end: expend
Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.
9 pleasant eye he/she/it to bless for to give: give from food: bread his to/for poor
The good of eye — he is blessed, For 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
Cast out a scorner — and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.
11 to love: lover (pure *Q(K)*) heart favor lip: words his neighbor his king
Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace [are] his lips, a king [is] his friend.
12 eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously
The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.
13 to say sluggish lion in/on/with outside in/on/with midst street/plaza to murder
The slothful hath said, 'A lion [is] without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'
14 pit deep lip be a stranger be indignant LORD (to fall: fall *Q(k)*) there
A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.
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 youth, The rod of chastisement putteth 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 is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich — only 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 words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge,
18 for pleasant for to keep: guard them in/on/with belly: body your to establish: prepare together upon lips your
For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for 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 Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou.
20 not to write to/for you (officer *Q(K)*) in/on/with counsel and knowledge
Have I not written to thee three times 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 certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee.
22 not to plunder poor for poor he/she/it and not to crush afflicted in/on/with gate
Rob not the poor because he [is] poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.
23 for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life
For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.
24 not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come
Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,
25 lest to teach/learn (way his *Q(K)*) and to take: recieve snare to/for soul: myself your
Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul.
26 not to be in/on/with to blow palm in/on/with to pledge loan
Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties [for] burdens.
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 doth he take thy bed from under thee?
28 not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your
Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have 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
Hast thou seen a man speedy in his business? Before kings he doth station himself, He stations not himself before obscure men!
