Proverbs 23

1 for to dwell to/for to feed on with to rule to understand to understand [obj] which to/for face: before your

If you sit to sup at the table of a prince, consider attentively the things set before you:

2 and to set: put knife in/on/with throat your if master: men soul: appetite you(m. s.)

and apply your hand, knowing that it behoves you to prepare such [meats]: but if you are very insatiable,

3 not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his and he/she/it food lie

desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life.

4 not be weary/toil to/for to enrich from understanding your to cease

If you are poor, measure not yourself with a rich man; but refrain yourself in your wisdom.

5 ( to fly *Q(K)*) eye your in/on/with him and nothing he for to make to make to/for him wing like/as eagle (to fly *Q(K)*) [the] heaven

If you should fix your eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.

6 not to feed on [obj] food: bread bad: evil eye: appearance and not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his

Sup not with an envious man, neither desire you his meats:

7 for like to calculate in/on/with soul his so he/she/it to eat and to drink to say to/for you and heart his not with you

so he eats and drinks as if any one should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to yourself, nor eat your morsel with him:

8 morsel your to eat to vomit her and to ruin word your [the] pleasant

for he will vomit it up, and spoil your fair words.

9 in/on/with ear: hearing fool not to speak: speak for to despise to/for understanding speech your

Say nothing in the ears of a fool, lest at any time he sneer at your wise words.

10 not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity and in/on/with land: country orphan not to come (in): come

Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:

11 for to redeem: redeem their strong he/she/it to contend [obj] strife their with you

for the Lord is their redeemer; he is mighty, and will plead their cause with you.

12 to come (in): bring [emph?] to/for discipline: instruction heart your and ear your to/for word knowledge

Apply your heart to instruction, and prepare your ears for words of discretion.

13 not to withhold from youth discipline for to smite him in/on/with tribe: staff not to die

Refrain not from chastening a child; for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.

14 you(m. s.) in/on/with tribe: staff to smite him and soul his from hell: Sheol to rescue (Sheol h7585)

For you shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from death. (Sheol h7585)

15 son: child my if be wise heart your to rejoice heart my also I

Son, if your heart be wise, you shall also gladden my heart;

16 and to exult kidney my in/on/with to speak: speak lips your uprightness

and your lips shall converse with my lips, if they be right.

17 not be jealous heart your in/on/with sinner that if: except if: except in/on/with fear LORD all [the] day

Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the Lord all the day.

18 that if: except if: except there end and hope your not to cut: eliminate

For if you should keep these things, you shall have posterity; and your hope shall not be removed.

19 to hear: hear you(m. s.) son: child my and be wise and to bless in/on/with way: conduct heart your

Hear, [my] son, and be wise, and rightly direct the thoughts of your heart.

20 not to be in/on/with to imbibe wine in/on/with be vile flesh to/for them

Be not a wine-bibber, neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh:

21 for to imbibe and be vile to possess: poor and rags to clothe drowsiness

for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.

22 to hear: hear to/for father your this to beget you and not to despise for be old mother your

Listen, [my] son, to your father which begot you, and despise not [your mother] because she is grown old.

23 truth: true to buy and not to sell wisdom and discipline: instruction and understanding

24 (to rejoice to rejoice *Q(k)*) father righteous (and to beget *Q(K)*) wise (to rejoice *Q(K)*) in/on/with to rejoice

A righteous father brings up [his children] well; and his soul rejoices over a wise son.

25 to rejoice father your and mother your and to rejoice to beget you

Let your father and your mother rejoice over you, and let her that bore you be glad.

26 to give: give [emph?] son: child my heart your to/for me and eye your way: conduct my (to watch *Q(K)*)

[My] son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

27 for pit deep to fornicate and well narrow foreign

For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow.

28 also he/she/it like/as robber to ambush and to act treacherously in/on/with man to add

For such a one shall perish suddenly; and every transgressor shall be cut off.

29 to/for who? woe! to/for who? pain! to/for who? (contention *Q(K)*) to/for who? complaint to/for who? wound for nothing to/for who? dullness eye

Who [has] woe? who trouble? who [has] quarrels? and who vexations and disputes? who [has] bruises without a cause? whose eyes are livid?

30 to/for to delay upon [the] wine to/for to come (in): come to/for to search mixed drink

Are not those of them that stay long at wine? [are] not [those] of them that haunt [the places] where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse [with them] openly.

31 not to see: see wine for to redden for to give: do (in/on/with cup *Q(K)*) eye his to go: went in/on/with uprightness

For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle.

32 end his like/as serpent to bite and like/as serpent to pierce

But at last [such a one] stretches himself out as one struck by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.

33 eye your to see: see be a stranger and heart your to speak: speak perversity

Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things.

34 and to be like/as to lie down: lay down in/on/with heart sea and like/as to lie down: lay down in/on/with head: top mast

And you shall lie as in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot in a great storm.

35 to smite me not be weak: ill to smite me not to know how to awake to add to seek him still

And you shall say, They struck me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?