< 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 become surety for thy friend, thou shalt deliver thine hand to an enemy.
2 to snare in/on/with word lip your to capture in/on/with word lip your
For a man's own lips become a strong snare to him, and he is caught with the lips of his own 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
[My] son, do what I command thee, and deliver thyself; for on thy friend's account thou art come into the power of evil [men]: faint not, but stir up even thy friend for whom thou art become surety.
4 not to give: give sleep to/for eye your and slumber to/for eyelid your
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber with thine eyelids;
5 to rescue like/as gazelle from hand and like/as bird from hand fowler
that thou mayest deliver thyself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.
6 to go: went to(wards) ant sluggish to see: examine way: conduct her and be wise
Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.
7 which nothing to/for her chief official and to rule
For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master,
8 to establish: prepare in/on/with summer food: bread her to gather in/on/with harvest food her
he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; whose labours kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: though weak in body, she is advanced by honouring wisdom.
9 till how sluggish to lie down: lay down how to arise: rise from sleep your
How long wilt thou lie, O sluggard? and when wilt thou awake out of sleep?
10 little sleep little slumber little folding hand to/for to lie down: sleep
Thou sleepest a little, and thou restest a little, and thou slumberest a short [time], and thou foldest thine arms over thy breast a little.
11 and to come (in): come like/as to go: follow poverty your and need your like/as man shield
Then poverty comes upon thee as an evil traveller, and want as a swift courier: but if thou be diligent, thine harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
12 man Belial: worthless man evil: wickedness to go: walk crookedness lip: word
A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.
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
And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of 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] perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.
15 upon so suddenly to come (in): come calamity his suddenness to break and nothing healing
Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly; overthrow and irretrievable ruin.
16 six they(fem.) to hate LORD and seven (abomination *Q(K)*) soul: myself his
For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul.
17 eye to exalt tongue deception and hand to pour: kill blood innocent
The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;
18 heart to plow/plot plot evil: wickedness foot to hasten to/for to run: run to/for distress: evil
and a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, —[are hateful to God].
19 to breathe lie witness deception and to send: depart strife between brother: male-sibling
An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren.
20 to watch son: child my commandment father your and not to leave instruction mother your
[My] son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the ordinances of thy mother:
21 to conspire them upon heart your continually to bind them upon neck your
but bind them upon thy soul continually, and hang them as a chain 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
Whensoever thou walkest, lead this along and let it be with thee; that it may talk with thee when thou wakest.
23 for lamp commandment and instruction light and way: conduct life argument discipline
For the commandment of the law is a lamp and a light; a way of life; reproof also and correction:
24 to/for to keep: guard you from woman bad: evil from smoothness tongue foreign
to keep thee continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.
25 not to desire beauty her in/on/with heart your and not to take: take you in/on/with eyelid her
Let not the desire of beauty overcome thee, neither be thou caught by thine eyes, neither be captivated 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 value of a harlot is as much as of one loaf; and a woman hunts for the precious souls of men.
27 to snatch up man fire in/on/with bosom: lap his and garment his not to burn
Shall any one bind fire in his bosom, and not burn his garments?
28 if to go: walk man upon [the] coal and foot his not to burn
or will any one walk on coals of fire, and not burn his feet?
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 that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither any one that touches her.
30 not to despise to/for thief for to steal to/for to fill soul: appetite his for be hungry
It is not to be wondered at if one should be taken stealing, for he steals that when hungry he may satisfy his soul:
31 and to find to complete sevenfold [obj] all substance house: home his to give: give
but if he should be taken, he shall repay sevenfold, and shall deliver himself by giving all his goods.
32 to commit adultery woman lacking heart to ruin soul: myself his he/she/it to make: do her
But the adulterer through want of sense procures destruction to his soul.
33 plague and dishonor to find and reproach his not to wipe
He endures both pain and disgrace, and his reproach shall never be wiped off.
34 for jealousy rage great man and not to spare in/on/with day vengeance
For the soul of her husband is full of jealousy: 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 forego [his] enmity for any ransom: neither will he be reconciled for many gifts.