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, Thou considerest diligently that which [is] before thee,
2 and to set: put knife in/on/with throat your if master: men soul: appetite you(m. s.)
And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou [art] 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 dainties, seeing it [is] lying food.
4 not be weary/toil to/for to enrich from understanding your to cease
Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon 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 maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
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 an evil eye, And have no desire to 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 hath thought in his soul, so [is] he, 'Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart [is] not with thee.
8 morsel your to eat to vomit her and to ruin word your [the] pleasant
Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that [are] sweet.
9 in/on/with ear: hearing fool not to speak: speak for to despise to/for understanding speech your
In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on 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 a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
11 for to redeem: redeem their strong he/she/it to contend [obj] strife their with you
For their Redeemer [is] strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.
12 to come (in): bring [emph?] to/for discipline: instruction heart your and ear your to/for word knowledge
Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to 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 youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.
14 you(m. s.) in/on/with tribe: staff to smite him and soul his from hell: Sheol to rescue (Sheol h7585)
Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest. (Sheol h7585)
15 son: child my if be wise heart your to rejoice heart my also I
My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,
16 and to exult kidney my in/on/with to speak: speak lips your uprightness
And my reins exult when thy 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
Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But — in the fear of Jehovah all the day.
18 that if: except if: except there end and hope your not to cut: eliminate
For, is there a posterity? Then thy 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 thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,
20 not to be in/on/with to imbibe wine in/on/with be vile flesh to/for them
Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
21 for to imbibe and be vile to possess: poor and rags to clothe drowsiness
For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth 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 hath become old.
23 truth: true to buy and not to sell wisdom and discipline: instruction and understanding
Truth buy, and sell not, 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 rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.
25 to rejoice father your and mother your and to rejoice to beget you
Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee 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, thy heart to me, And let thine 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 strait 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, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.
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 contentions? who hath plaint? 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
Those tarrying 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
See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.
32 end his like/as serpent to bite and like/as serpent to pierce
Its latter end — as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.
33 eye your to see: see be a stranger and heart your to speak: speak perversity
Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh 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 hast 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 smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake — I seek it yet again!'
