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, consider diligently what is before you;
2 and to set: put knife in/on/with throat your if master: men soul: appetite you(m. s.)
put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
3 not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his and he/she/it food lie
Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
4 not be weary/toil to/for to enrich from understanding your to cease
Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
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
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
6 not to feed on [obj] food: bread bad: evil eye: appearance and not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his
Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave 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 thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
8 morsel your to eat to vomit her and to ruin word your [the] pleasant
You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
9 in/on/with ear: hearing fool not to speak: speak for to despise to/for understanding speech your
Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise 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
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
11 for to redeem: redeem their strong he/she/it to contend [obj] strife their with you
for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against 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 your 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
Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish 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)
Punish him with the rod, and save 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 is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.
16 and to exult kidney my in/on/with to speak: speak lips your uprightness
Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
17 not be jealous heart your in/on/with sinner that if: except if: except in/on/with fear LORD all [the] day
Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear the LORD all day long.
18 that if: except if: except there end and hope your not to cut: eliminate
Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your 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
Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!
20 not to be in/on/with to imbibe wine in/on/with be vile flesh to/for them
Don’t be amongst ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat;
21 for to imbibe and be vile to possess: poor and rags to clothe drowsiness
for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in 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 gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
23 truth: true to buy and not to sell wisdom and discipline: instruction and understanding
Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, 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 has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
25 to rejoice father your and mother your and to rejoice to beget you
Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you 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 your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
27 for pit deep to fornicate and well narrow foreign
For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
28 also he/she/it like/as robber to ambush and to act treacherously in/on/with man to add
Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful amongst 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 strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30 to/for to delay upon [the] wine to/for to come (in): come to/for to search mixed drink
Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek 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
Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
32 end his like/as serpent to bite and like/as serpent to pierce
In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
33 eye your to see: see be a stranger and heart your to speak: speak perversity
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing 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
Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:
35 to smite me not be weak: ill to smite me not to know how to awake to add to seek him still
“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I will look for more.”
