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 you sit to eat with a ruler, Diligently consider that which [is] before you,
2 and to set: put knife in/on/with throat your if master: men soul: appetite you(m. s.)
And you have put a knife to your throat, If you [are] a man of appetite.
3 not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his and he/she/it food lie
Have no desire to his delicacies, seeing it [is] lying food.
4 not be weary/toil to/for to enrich from understanding your to cease
Do not labor to make wealth, Cease from your own understanding, Do you cause your eyes to fly on it? Then it is not.
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
For wealth makes wings to itself, It flies to the heavens as an eagle.
6 not to feed on [obj] food: bread bad: evil eye: appearance and not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his
Do not eat the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his delicacies,
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 he has thought in his soul, so he [is]. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, And his heart [is] not with you.
8 morsel your to eat to vomit her and to ruin word your [the] pleasant
You vomit up your morsel you have eaten, And have marred your words that [are] sweet.
9 in/on/with ear: hearing fool not to speak: speak for to despise to/for understanding speech your
Do not speak in the ears of a fool, For he treads on the wisdom of your words.
10 not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity and in/on/with land: country orphan not to come (in): come
Do not remove a border of ancient times, And do not enter into fields of the fatherless,
11 for to redeem: redeem their strong he/she/it to contend [obj] strife their with you
For their Redeemer [is] strong, He pleads their cause with you.
12 to come (in): bring [emph?] to/for discipline: instruction heart your and ear your to/for word knowledge
Bring your heart to instruction, And your ear to sayings of knowledge.
13 not to withhold from youth discipline for to smite him in/on/with tribe: staff not to die
Do not withhold discipline from a youth, When you strike him with a rod he does not die.
14 you(m. s.) in/on/with tribe: staff to smite him and soul his from hell: Sheol to rescue (Sheol h7585)
You strike him with a rod, And you deliver his soul from Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
15 son: child my if be wise heart your to rejoice heart my also I
My son, if your heart has been wise, My heart rejoices, even mine,
16 and to exult kidney my in/on/with to speak: speak lips your uprightness
And my reins exult when your lips speak uprightly.
17 not be jealous heart your in/on/with sinner that if: except if: except in/on/with fear LORD all [the] day
Do not let your heart be envious at sinners, But—in the fear of YHWH all the day.
18 that if: except if: except there end and hope your not to cut: eliminate
For is there a posterity? Then your hope is not 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, my son, and be wise, And make your heart blessed in the way,
20 not to be in/on/with to imbibe wine in/on/with be vile flesh to/for them
Do not become drunk with wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
21 for to imbibe and be vile to possess: poor and rags to clothe drowsiness
For the drunkard and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clothes with rags.
22 to hear: hear to/for father your this to beget you and not to despise for be old mother your
Listen to your father, who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she has become old.
23 truth: true to buy and not to sell wisdom and discipline: instruction and understanding
Buy truth, and do not sell, 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 rejoices greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoices in him.
25 to rejoice father your and mother your and to rejoice to beget you
Your father and your mother rejoice, Indeed, she bearing you is joyful.
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, your heart to me, And let your 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 pit.
28 also he/she/it like/as robber to ambush and to act treacherously in/on/with man to add
She also, as catching prey, lies in wait, And she increases 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 has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaint? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
30 to/for to delay upon [the] wine to/for to come (in): come to/for to search mixed drink
Those lingering by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.
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 see wine when it shows itself red, When it gives its color in the cup, It goes up and down through the upright.
32 end his like/as serpent to bite and like/as serpent to pierce
Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, And it stings as a viper.
33 eye your to see: see be a stranger and heart your to speak: speak perversity
Your eyes see strange women, And your heart speaks 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 have been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down 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 struck me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!”
