Proverbs 28
1 to flee and nothing to pursue wicked and righteous like/as lion to trust
The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer, And the righteous is confident as a young lion.
2 in/on/with transgression land: country/planet many ruler her and in/on/with man to understand to know right to prolong
By the transgression of a land its heads are many, And by an understanding man, Who knows right—it is prolonged.
3 great man be poor and to oppress poor rain to prostatrate and nothing food
A man—poor and oppressing the weak, [Is] a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.
4 to leave: forsake instruction to boast: praise wicked and to keep: obey instruction to stir up in/on/with them
Those forsaking the Law praise the wicked, Those keeping the Law plead against them.
5 human bad: evil not to understand justice and to seek LORD to understand all
Evil men do not understand judgment, And those seeking YHWH understand all.
6 pleasant be poor to go: walk in/on/with integrity his from twisted way: conduct and he/she/it rich
Better [is] the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.
7 to watch instruction son: child to understand and to accompany be vile be humiliated father his
Whoever is keeping the Law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons Causes his father to blush.
8 to multiply substance his in/on/with interest (and increment *Q(K)*) to/for be gracious poor to gather him
Whoever is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, Gathers it for one favoring the poor.
9 to turn aside: depart ear his from to hear: hear instruction also prayer his abomination
Whoever is turning his ear from hearing the Law, Even his prayer [is] an abomination.
10 to wander upright in/on/with way: conduct bad: evil in/on/with pit his he/she/it to fall: fall and unblemished: blameless to inherit good
Whoever is causing the upright to err in an evil way, He falls into his own pit, And the perfect inherits good.
11 wise in/on/with eye his man rich and poor to understand to search him
A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searches him.
12 in/on/with to rejoice righteous many beauty and in/on/with to arise: rise wicked to search man
In the exulting of the righteous the glory [is] abundant, And in the rising of the wicked man is apprehensive.
13 to cover transgression his not to prosper and to give thanks and to leave: forsake to have compassion
Whoever is covering his transgressions does not prosper, And he who is confessing and forsaking has mercy.
14 blessed man to dread continually and to harden heart his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
O the blessedness of a man fearing continually, And whoever is hardening his heart falls into evil.
15 lion to groan and bear to rush to rule wicked upon people poor
A growling lion, and a ranging bear, [Is] the wicked ruler over a poor people.
16 leader lacking understanding and many oppression (to hate *Q(K)*) unjust-gain to prolong day
A leader lacking understanding multiplies oppressions, Whoever is hating dishonest gain prolongs days.
17 man to oppress in/on/with blood soul: person till pit to flee not to grasp in/on/with him
A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Flees to the pit, [and] none takes hold on him [to help].
18 to go: walk unblemished: blameless to save and to twist way: conduct to fall: fall in/on/with one
Whoever is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falls at once.
19 to serve: labour land: soil his to satisfy food: bread and to pursue worthless to satisfy poverty
Whoever is tilling his ground is satisfied [with] bread, And whoever is pursuing vanity, Is filled [with] poverty.
20 man faithfulness many blessing and to hasten to/for to enrich not to clear
A steadfast man has multiplied blessings, And whoever is hastening to be rich is not acquitted.
21 to recognize face: kindness not pleasant and upon morsel food: bread to transgress great man
[It] is not good to discern faces, And a man transgresses for a piece of bread.
22 to dismay to/for substance man bad: evil eye: appearance and not to know for poverty to come (in): come him
The man [with] an evil eye [is] troubled for wealth, And he does not know that want meets him.
23 to rebuke man backwards me favor to find from to smooth tongue
Whoever is reproving a man finds grace afterward, More than a flatterer with the tongue.
24 to plunder father his and mother his and to say nothing transgression companion he/she/it to/for man to ruin
Whoever is robbing his father or his mother, And is saying, “It is not transgression,” He is a companion to a destroyer.
25 broad: arrogant soul: person to stir up strife and to trust upon LORD to prosper
Whoever is proud in soul stirs up contention, And whoever is trusting on YHWH is made fat.
26 to trust in/on/with heart his he/she/it fool and to go: walk in/on/with wisdom he/she/it to escape
Whoever is trusting in his heart is a fool, And whoever is walking in wisdom is delivered.
27 to give: give to/for be poor nothing need and to conceal eye his many curse
Whoever is giving to the poor has no lack, And whoever is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.
28 in/on/with to arise: rise wicked to hide man and in/on/with to perish they to multiply righteous
A man is hidden in the rising of the wicked, And the righteous multiply in their destruction!
