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
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
2 and to set: put knife in/on/with throat your if master: men soul: appetite you(m. s.)
For thou puttest a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man of a craving desire.
3 not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his and he/she/it food lie
Do not long for his savory meats; they are deceitful food.
4 not be weary/toil to/for to enrich from understanding your to cease
Fatigue thyself not to become rich; because thou hast understanding, forbear.
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
When thou lettest merely thy eyes fly over it, it is no more: for it will ever make itself wings: like an eagle will it fly toward heaven.
6 not to feed on [obj] food: bread bad: evil eye: appearance and not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his
Eat not the bread of a man with an evil eye, and do not long for his savory 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
For as though there were a division in his soul, so doth he act: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
8 morsel your to eat to vomit her and to ruin word your [the] pleasant
Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou spit out, and thou hast wasted thy pleasant words.
9 in/on/with ear: hearing fool not to speak: speak for to despise to/for understanding speech your
Speak not before the ears of a fool; for he will despise the intelligence of thy 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 landmark, and into the fields of the fatherless must thou not enter;
11 for to redeem: redeem their strong he/she/it to contend [obj] strife their with you
For their redeemer is strong; he will indeed plead their cause with thee.
12 to come (in): bring [emph?] to/for discipline: instruction heart your and ear your to/for word knowledge
Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thy ears to the sayings of knowledge.
13 not to withhold from youth discipline for to smite him in/on/with tribe: staff not to die
Withhold not from a lad correction; for if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
14 you(m. s.) in/on/with tribe: staff to smite him and soul his from hell: Sheol to rescue (Sheol h7585)
Thou wilt indeed beat him with the rod; but thou wilt deliver his soul from perdition. (Sheol h7585)
15 son: child my if be wise heart your to rejoice heart my also I
My son, If thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16 and to exult kidney my in/on/with to speak: speak lips your uprightness
And my reins shall exult when thy lips speak what is equitable.
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 thy heart be envious against sinners; but [remain] in the fear of the lord all the time.
18 that if: except if: except there end and hope your not to cut: eliminate
For surely there is a future, and thy hope will not be cut off.
19 to hear: hear you(m. s.) son: child my and be wise and to bless in/on/with way: conduct heart your
Hear thou, my son, and become wise, and guide thy heart on the right way.
20 not to be in/on/with to imbibe wine in/on/with be vile flesh to/for them
Be not among those that drink wine immoderately, among those that over-indulge in eating flesh:
21 for to imbibe and be vile to possess: poor and rags to clothe drowsiness
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth a man in rags.
22 to hear: hear to/for father your this to beget you and not to despise for be old mother your
Hearken unto thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother although she be old.
23 truth: true to buy and not to sell wisdom and discipline: instruction and understanding
Buy the truth and sell it not; [also] wisdom, and 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
The father of the righteous will be greatly glad, and he that begetteth a wise child will have joy through him.
25 to rejoice father your and mother your and to rejoice to beget you
Let [then] thy father and thy mother rejoice, and let her that hath born thee 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)*)
Give, my son, thy heart unto me, and let thy eyes watch my ways.
27 for pit deep to fornicate and well narrow foreign
For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow well.
28 also he/she/it like/as robber to ambush and to act treacherously in/on/with man to add
She also lieth in wait like a robber, and she increaseth the treacherous among men.
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 hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath quarrels? who hath complaints? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30 to/for to delay upon [the] wine to/for to come (in): come to/for to search mixed drink
They that tarry late over the wine: they that come to seek for mixed drink.
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
Do not look on the wine when it looketh red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it glideth down so readily.
32 end his like/as serpent to bite and like/as serpent to pierce
At the last it will bite like a serpent, and like a basilisk will it sting.
33 eye your to see: see be a stranger and heart your to speak: speak perversity
Thy eyes will see strange forms, and thy heart will 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 thou wilt be like one that lieth down in the heart of the sea, or as he that lieth on the top of a mast.
35 to smite me not be weak: ill to smite me not to know how to awake to add to seek him still
“They smote me, [but] I suffered no pain; they struck me hard, [but] I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will continue to seek it again.”
