< Proverbs 13 >
1 Children who are wise (pay attention/heed it) when their parents discipline/correct them; but foolish children do not pay attention when someone rebukes them [for their bad behavior].
A son wise [the] discipline of a father and a mocker not he listens to a rebuke.
2 Good people are rewarded [IDM] for the good things [MET] that they say, but those who desire to deceive others are [very] eager to act violently.
From [the] fruit of [the] mouth of a person he eats good thing[s] and [the] appetite of treacherous [people] [is] violence.
3 Those who are [very] careful about what they say [MTY] will live a long life; those who talk (without thinking/too much) will ruin themselves.
[one who] guards Mouth his [is] protecting life his [one who] opens lips his ruin [belongs] to him.
4 People who are lazy want things very much, but they will not get anything [HYP]. People who work hard will get all that they want.
[is] coveting And nothing appetite his a sluggard and [the] appetite of diligent [people] it will be made fat.
5 Righteous/Honest people hate/detest lies, but what wicked people do (is very disgraceful/stinks) [DOU].
A word of falsehood he hates a righteous [person] and a wicked [person] he acts odiously and he may act shamefully.
6 The behavior [PRS] of those who always do what is right will protect them, but sinful [behavior will] ruin wicked people.
Righteousness it preserves integrity of way and wickedness it subverts sin.
7 Some people who have nothing pretend to be rich, but other people who are very rich pretend to be poor.
There [is one who] enriches himself and there not [is] anything [one who] impoverishes himself and wealth great.
8 Rich people are able to pay people who want to kill them, [with the result that they will be protected, not killed], but poor people [do not have to worry about that because] no one threatens to kill them.
[the] ransom of [the] life of A person [is] wealth his and a poor [person] not he hears a threat.
9 Righteous [people] are like a lamp [MET] that shines brightly, but wicked [people] are like [MET] a lamp that will [soon] be extinguished.
[the] light of Righteous [people] it rejoices and [the] lamp of wicked [people] it is extinguished.
10 [People] who are arrogant/proud [always] cause strife; those who are wise ask [other people] for good advice.
Only with pride it gives contention and [is] with [those who] receive advice wisdom.
11 Those who acquire a lot of money quickly [by doing what is wrong, probably] will lose it [quickly], but if people earn money slowly, the amount of money they have will increase.
Wealth from vanity it will become small and [one who] gathers on hand he will increase.
12 When people do not receive the things that they are expecting to receive, (it causes them to despair/they become very sad); but if you receive what you are desiring to get, that [will be like a tree] [MET] [whose fruit gives you] life (OR, that will cause you to be joyful).
Hope deferred [is] making sick [the] heart and [is] a tree of life a desire [which] comes.
13 Those who despise [the good] advice [that others give them] are bringing ruin on themselves; those who pay attention to that advice will (be secure/succeed).
[one who] despises A word he will be pledged to it and [one] fearing a commandment he he will be rewarded.
14 What wise [people] teach is [like] a fountain whose [water] gives life [MET]; what they teach you will help you to escape when something dangerous is threatening to kill you [MET].
[the] instruction of A wise [person] [is] a fountain of life to turn aside from [the] snares of death.
15 [People] respect those who have good sense, but those who cannot be trusted are on the road to being ruined/destroyed (OR, will have a lot of difficulties/troubles).
Insight good it gives favor and [the] way of treacherous [people] [is] enduring.
16 Those who have good sense always think carefully/wisely before they do something; foolish people show [by what they say and do] that they are foolish.
Every sensible [person] he acts with knowledge and a fool he spreads out foolishness.
17 Messengers who are not reliable cause trouble, but those who faithfully [deliver their messages] cause people to act peacefully.
A messenger wicked he falls in trouble and an envoy of faithfulness [is] healing.
18 Those who refuse to pay attention when others discipline/correct them will become poor and disgraced; [people] respect those who accept it when they are rebuked [for their bad behavior].
Poverty and shame [one who] ignores discipline and [one who] keeps correction he is honored.
19 It is delightful to receive what we desire; foolish people hate/refuse to turn away from doing evil.
A desire done (is pleasing *LAH(b)*) to a person and [is] an abomination of fools to turn aside from evil.
20 Those who habitually associate with wise people become wise; those who (are close friends of/associate with) foolish people will (regret it/be ruined).
([one who] walks *Q(K)*) With wise [people] (he will become wise *Q(K)*) and [one who] associates with fools he will be harmed.
21 Sinners have trouble [PRS] wherever they go, but things will go well for righteous [people].
Sinners it pursues calamity and righteous [people] it rewards good.
22 When good people [die], their grandchildren inherit their money; but when sinners [die], the money that they had will end up in the hands of righteous [people].
A good [person] he leaves an inheritance to children of children and [is] stored up for the righteous [the] wealth of a sinner.
23 [Sometimes] poor [people’s] fields produce plenty of food, but unjust people take away all that food.
Abundance of food [the] unplowed ground of poor [people] and there [is what] is swept away in not justice.
24 Those who do not punish their children [for bad behavior] do not [really] love them; those who love their children start to discipline them when the children are still young.
[one who] restrains Rod his [is] hating son his and [one who] loves him he seeks early him discipline.
25 Righteous [people] have enough food to eat and be satisfied, but the stomachs of wicked [people] [SYN] are [always] empty.
A righteous [person] [is] eating to [the] satiety of appetite his and [the] belly of wicked [people] it is lacking.