< 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 well 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 wilt put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man given to appetite!
3 not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his and he/she/it food lie
Long not for his dainties. For they are deceitful meat.
4 not be weary/toil to/for to enrich from understanding your to cease
Toil not to become rich; Cease from this, thy 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
Wilt thou let thine eyes fly toward them? They are gone! For riches truly make to themselves wings; They fly away like the eagle 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 him that hath an evil eye, And long not for his dainties;
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 thinketh in his heart, so is he. “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
The morsel, which thou hast eaten, thou shalt vomit up; And thou wilt have thrown away thy sweet words.
9 in/on/with ear: hearing fool not to speak: speak for to despise to/for understanding speech your
Speak not in the ears of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom 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 enter not into the fields of the fatherless!
11 for to redeem: redeem their strong he/she/it to contend [obj] strife their with you
For their avenger is mighty; He will maintain their cause against thee.
12 to come (in): bring [emph?] to/for discipline: instruction heart your and ear your to/for word knowledge
Apply thy heart to instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.
13 not to withhold from youth discipline for to smite him in/on/with tribe: staff not to die
Withhold not correction from a child; 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 )
Beat him thyself with the rod, And thou shalt rescue him from the underworld. (Sheol )
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
Yea, my reins shall exult, When thy lips speak right things.
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 envy sinners, But continue thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long;
18 that if: except if: except there end and hope your not to cut: eliminate
For surely there shall be a reward, And thine expectation shall 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 be wise; And let thy heart go forward in the way!
20 not to be in/on/with to imbibe wine in/on/with be vile flesh to/for them
Be not thou among winebibbers, And riotous eaters of flesh;
21 for to imbibe and be vile to possess: poor and rags to clothe drowsiness
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
22 to hear: hear to/for father your this to beget you and not to despise for be old mother your
Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 truth: true to buy and not to sell wisdom and discipline: instruction and understanding
Buy the truth, and sell it not; Buy 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 a righteous man shall greatly rejoice; Yea, he who begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him.
25 to rejoice father your and mother your and to rejoice to beget you
Let thy father and thy mother have joy; Yea, let her that bore thee rejoice!
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 thy heart, And let thine eyes observe my ways!
27 for pit deep to fornicate and well narrow foreign
For a harlot is a deep ditch; Yea, 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
Like a robber she lieth in wait, And 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 contentions? Who anxiety? Who wounds without cause? Who dimness 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 long at the wine; They that go in to seek 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
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly.
32 end his like/as serpent to bite and like/as serpent to pierce
At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
33 eye your to see: see be a stranger and heart your to speak: speak perversity
Thine eyes will look upon strange women, And thy heart will utter 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
Yea, thou shalt be as one that lieth down in the midst of the sea, And as one that lieth down upon 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 have stricken me [[shalt thou say]], —I suffered no pain! They have beaten me, —I felt it not! When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.