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 someone has borrowed money from a friend or a stranger, and if you have promised that you will pay the money back if that person is unable to pay back the money he borrowed,
2 to snare in/on/with word lip your to capture in/on/with word lip your
you may be trapped by what you have agreed to do, [because if the one who borrowed the money is not able to pay it back, you will have to pay it]. What you have said that you will do will be like a snare to 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
So, my son, I will tell you what you should do to escape from your difficulty, so that the moneylender does not get control over your [wealth: ] Humbly go to your friend and plead with him [to cancel the agreement]!
4 not to give: give sleep to/for eye your and slumber to/for eyelid your
Do not wait until tomorrow; [go immediately]! Do not rest until you [go and talk with him].
5 to rescue like/as gazelle from hand and like/as bird from hand fowler
Save yourself, like a deer that escapes from a deer hunter [or] like a bird that flees from a bird hunter.
6 to go: went to(wards) ant sluggish to see: examine way: conduct her and be wise
You lazy individual, learn something from [watching] the ants. Become wise from observing what they do.
7 which nothing to/for her chief official and to rule
They do not have a king or a governor or any [other] person who rules them [and forces them to work],
8 to establish: prepare in/on/with summer food: bread her to gather in/on/with harvest food her
[but] they work hard [all] during the summer, gathering and storing food to eat during the winter.
9 till how sluggish to lie down: lay down how to arise: rise from sleep your
[But], you lazy loafer, how long will you [continue to] sleep [RHQ]? Are you never going to get up from sleeping [and go to work]?
10 little sleep little slumber little folding hand to/for to lie down: sleep
You sleep a for a little time; [you say, “I will take] just a short nap.” You lie down and fold/lay your hands [across your chest] and rest;
11 and to come (in): come like/as to go: follow poverty your and need your like/as man shield
and suddenly you will become poor. It will be as though a bandit suddenly comes and takes all that you have.
12 man Belial: worthless man evil: wickedness to go: walk crookedness lip: word
[I will describe for you what] worthless and evil people [are like]. They constantly lie;
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
by winking their eyes and moving their feet and making signs with their fingers, they signal [to their friends what they are intending/planning to do].
14 perversity in/on/with heart his to plow/plot bad: evil in/on/with all time (contention *Q(K)*) to send: depart
They plan to do evil things. They constantly cause strife/trouble.
15 upon so suddenly to come (in): come calamity his suddenness to break and nothing healing
But disasters will hit them suddenly; they will be crushed/ruined and nothing will be able to heal them.
16 six they(fem.) to hate LORD and seven (abomination *Q(K)*) soul: myself his
There are six, [maybe] seven, kinds of people that Yahweh hates. [They are]:
17 eye to exalt tongue deception and hand to pour: kill blood innocent
People who show by their eyes that they are very proud; people who lie [MTY]; people [SYN] who kill others [SYN] who have done nothing wrong;
18 heart to plow/plot plot evil: wickedness foot to hasten to/for to run: run to/for distress: evil
people who plan to do evil deeds; people [SYN] who run quickly to do wrong things;
19 to breathe lie witness deception and to send: depart strife between brother: male-sibling
people who easily tell lies in court; and people who cause strife between family members.
20 to watch son: child my commandment father your and not to leave instruction mother your
My son, obey my commands, and do not ignore what your mother has taught you.
21 to conspire them upon heart your continually to bind them upon neck your
Remember the things that we have said. Those things should be [like a beautiful necklace] around 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
[If you follow our advice, it will be as though] what we have taught you [PRS] will lead you, wherever you go. When you sleep, they will protect you. And when you wake up in the morning, they will teach/instruct you.
23 for lamp commandment and instruction light and way: conduct life argument discipline
These commands and what we teach you [will be like] a lamp to light your path [MET]. When we rebuke you and correct/punish you, we will be showing you the road to having [a good] life.
24 to/for to keep: guard you from woman bad: evil from smoothness tongue foreign
Heeding [PRS] these commands and things that we have taught you will enable you to keep away from immoral women and from [listening to] the enticing words of an adulterous woman.
25 not to desire beauty her in/on/with heart your and not to take: take you in/on/with eyelid her
[Even] if such a woman is beautiful and has lovely eyes, do not desire to go with her. Do not let her persuade you to go with her (with her eyes/by the way she looks at you).
26 for about/through/for woman to fornicate till talent food: bread and woman man: husband soul: life precious to hunt
[Do not forget that] you can hire a prostitute for only a loaf of bread, but [if you sleep with] another man’s wife, (it may cost you/you may lose) your life.
27 to snatch up man fire in/on/with bosom: lap his and garment his not to burn
Can you carry hot coals in your pocket and not be burned [RHQ]?
28 if to go: walk man upon [the] coal and foot his not to burn
Can you walk on burning coals and not scorch/burn your 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
[No]! And in the same way, anyone who (sleeps with/has sex with) another man’s wife will [suffer for doing that]. [He will certainly] [LIT] be punished severely.
30 not to despise to/for thief for to steal to/for to fill soul: appetite his for be hungry
We do not despise a thief if he steals some food because he is very hungry.
31 and to find to complete sevenfold [obj] all substance house: home his to give: give
But [if he steals something and then] is caught [by the police], he will have to pay back (seven times as much as/much more than) he stole. He may need to sell everything that is in his house [to get enough money to pay it back].
32 to commit adultery woman lacking heart to ruin soul: myself his he/she/it to make: do her
[But] a man who commits adultery with some woman is very foolish, [because] he is destroying his own self/soul [by what he is doing].
33 plague and dishonor to find and reproach his not to wipe
[That woman’s husband] will wound him badly, and [other people] will despise him. His shame will never end.
34 for jealousy rage great man and not to spare in/on/with day vengeance
Because that woman’s husband will (be jealous/not want anyone else to sleep with her), he will become furious, and when he gets revenge, he will not act mercifully [toward the man who slept with his wife].
35 not to lift: kindness face: kindness all ransom and not be willing for to multiply bribe
And he will not accept any bribe/money, even if it is a big bribe, to (appease him/cause him to stop being angry).
