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 you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,
2 to snare in/on/with word lip your to capture in/on/with word lip your
You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.
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, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.
4 not to give: give sleep to/for eye your and slumber to/for eyelid your
Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
5 to rescue like/as gazelle from hand and like/as bird from hand fowler
Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
6 to go: went to(wards) ant sluggish to see: examine way: conduct her and be wise
Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:
7 which nothing to/for her chief official and to rule
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
She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.
9 till how sluggish to lie down: lay down how to arise: rise from sleep your
How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
10 little sleep little slumber little folding hand to/for to lie down: sleep
A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
11 and to come (in): come like/as to go: follow poverty your and need your like/as man shield
Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
12 man Belial: worthless man evil: wickedness to go: walk crookedness lip: word
A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;
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
Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news 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
His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.
15 upon so suddenly to come (in): come calamity his suddenness to break and nothing healing
For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.
16 six they(fem.) to hate LORD and seven (abomination *Q(K)*) soul: myself his
Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:
17 eye to exalt tongue deception and hand to pour: kill blood innocent
Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;
18 heart to plow/plot plot evil: wickedness foot to hasten to/for to run: run to/for distress: evil
A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;
19 to breathe lie witness deception and to send: depart strife between brother: male-sibling
A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.
20 to watch son: child my commandment father your and not to leave instruction mother your
My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
21 to conspire them upon heart your continually to bind them upon neck your
Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your 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
In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
23 for lamp commandment and instruction light and way: conduct life argument discipline
For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
24 to/for to keep: guard you from woman bad: evil from smoothness tongue foreign
They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
25 not to desire beauty her in/on/with heart your and not to take: take you in/on/with eyelid her
Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
26 for about/through/for woman to fornicate till talent food: bread and woman man: husband soul: life precious to hunt
For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
27 to snatch up man fire in/on/with bosom: lap his and garment his not to burn
May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?
28 if to go: walk man upon [the] coal and foot his not to burn
Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?
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 it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
30 not to despise to/for thief for to steal to/for to fill soul: appetite his for be hungry
Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:
31 and to find to complete sevenfold [obj] all substance house: home his to give: give
But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.
32 to commit adultery woman lacking heart to ruin soul: myself his he/she/it to make: do her
He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
33 plague and dishonor to find and reproach his not to wipe
Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
34 for jealousy rage great man and not to spare in/on/with day vengeance
For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.
35 not to lift: kindness face: kindness all ransom and not be willing for to multiply bribe
He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.
