< Proverbs 6 >
1 son: child my if to pledge to/for neighbor your to blow to/for be a stranger palm your
My son, if thou have become surety for thy neighbor, if thou have struck thy hands for a stranger,
2 to snare in/on/with word lip your to capture in/on/with word lip your
thou are snared with the words of thy mouth, thou are taken with the words of thy mouth.
3 to make: do this then son: child my and to rescue for to come (in): come in/on/with palm neighbor your to go: went to stamp and to be assertive neighbor your
Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, since thou have come into the hand of thy neighbor. Go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor.
4 not to give: give sleep to/for eye your and slumber to/for eyelid your
Do not give sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
5 to rescue like/as gazelle from hand and like/as bird from hand fowler
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6 to go: went to(wards) ant sluggish to see: examine way: conduct her and be wise
Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise.
7 which nothing to/for her chief official and to rule
Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
8 to establish: prepare in/on/with summer food: bread her to gather in/on/with harvest food her
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
9 till how sluggish to lie down: lay down how to arise: rise from sleep your
How long will thou sleep, O sluggard? When will thou arise out of thy sleep?
10 little sleep little slumber little folding hand to/for to lie down: sleep
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
11 and to come (in): come like/as to go: follow poverty your and need your like/as man shield
so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.
12 man Belial: worthless man evil: wickedness to go: walk crookedness lip: word
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
13 to wink (in/on/with eye his *Q(K)*) to rub (in/on/with foot his *Q(K)*) to show in/on/with finger his
who winks with his eyes, who speaks with his feet, who makes signs with his fingers,
14 perversity in/on/with heart his to plow/plot bad: evil in/on/with all time (contention *Q(K)*) to send: depart
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who sows discord.
15 upon so suddenly to come (in): come calamity his suddenness to break and nothing healing
Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly. Suddenly he shall be broken, and that without remedy.
16 six they(fem.) to hate LORD and seven (abomination *Q(K)*) soul: myself his
There are six things which Jehovah hates, yea, seven which are an abomination to him:
17 eye to exalt tongue deception and hand to pour: kill blood innocent
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 heart to plow/plot plot evil: wickedness foot to hasten to/for to run: run to/for distress: evil
a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
19 to breathe lie witness deception and to send: depart strife between brother: male-sibling
a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
20 to watch son: child my commandment father your and not to leave instruction mother your
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and do not forsake the law of thy mother.
21 to conspire them upon heart your continually to bind them upon neck your
Bind them continually upon thy heart. Tie them about thy neck.
22 in/on/with to go: walk you to lead [obj] you in/on/with to lie down: lay down you to keep: guard upon you and to awake he/she/it to muse you
When thou walk, it shall lead thee. When thou sleep, it shall watch over thee. And when thou awake, it shall talk with thee.
23 for lamp commandment and instruction light and way: conduct life argument discipline
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
24 to/for to keep: guard you from woman bad: evil from smoothness tongue foreign
to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.
25 not to desire beauty her in/on/with heart your and not to take: take you in/on/with eyelid her
Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids.
26 for about/through/for woman to fornicate till talent food: bread and woman man: husband soul: life precious to hunt
For the price of a harlot is as much as a piece of bread, but the adulteress hunts for the precious life.
27 to snatch up man fire in/on/with bosom: lap his and garment his not to burn
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
28 if to go: walk man upon [the] coal and foot his not to burn
Or can a man walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
29 so [the] to come (in): come to(wards) woman: wife neighbor his not to clear all [the] to touch in/on/with her
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her shall not be unpunished.
30 not to despise to/for thief for to steal to/for to fill soul: appetite his for be hungry
Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry.
31 and to find to complete sevenfold [obj] all substance house: home his to give: give
Yet if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold. He shall give all the substance of his house.
32 to commit adultery woman lacking heart to ruin soul: myself his he/she/it to make: do her
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.
33 plague and dishonor to find and reproach his not to wipe
Wounds and dishonor he shall get, and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
34 for jealousy rage great man and not to spare in/on/with day vengeance
For jealousy is a man's fury, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
35 not to lift: kindness face: kindness all ransom and not be willing for to multiply bribe
He will not regard any ransom, nor will he be satisfied, though thou give many gifts.