Proverbs 28
1 Wicked [people] run away [even] when no one is pursuing them, but righteous/good [people are not afraid]; they are as brave as lions.
to flee and nothing to pursue wicked and righteous like/as lion to trust
2 When [the people of] a nation sin, they will have one ruler after another; but when their leaders are wise and have good sense, their government will last for a long time.
in/on/with transgression land: country/planet many ruler her and in/on/with man to understand to know right to prolong
3 A poor person who oppresses [other] poor [people] is [like] [MET] a very heavy/hard rain that [destroys the crops], with the result that there is no food [for people to eat].
great man be poor and to oppress poor rain to prostatrate and nothing food
4 Those who reject/disobey [God’s] laws always speak well of wicked [people]; but those who obey [God’s] laws [always] oppose what wicked people do.
to leave: forsake instruction to boast: praise wicked and to keep: obey instruction to stir up in/on/with them
5 Evil people do not understand what it means to act justly, but those who try to obey/worship Yahweh understand that very well.
human bad: evil not to understand justice and to seek LORD to understand all
6 It is better to be honest [even] though you are poor than to be dishonest [even] though you are rich.
pleasant be poor to go: walk in/on/with integrity his from twisted way: conduct and he/she/it rich
7 Young people who obey the laws are wise [IDM]; parents whose children associate with those who (carouse/go to wild parties) are humiliated/disgraced because of what their children do.
to watch instruction son: child to understand and to accompany be vile be humiliated father his
8 When people become very rich by charging very high interest [DOU], their money will [eventually] go to someone who does kind things for the poor.
to multiply substance his in/on/with interest (and increment *Q(K)*) to/for be gracious poor to gather him
9 If people do not obey [MTY] [God’s] laws, [God] (detests their prayers/considers that their prayers stink).
to turn aside: depart ear his from to hear: hear instruction also prayer his abomination
10 Those who cause honest/good [people] to do what is evil will fall into their own pits/traps, but good things will happen to those who (are innocent/have not done what is wrong).
to wander upright in/on/with way: conduct bad: evil in/on/with pit his he/she/it to fall: fall and unblemished: blameless to inherit good
11 [Many] rich people think that they are wise, but poor people who have good sense will find out whether rich people really are wise or not.
wise in/on/with eye his man rich and poor to understand to search him
12 When righteous/good [people] (succeed/win [elections]), everyone (celebrates/is happy); but when wicked [people win], everyone hides [because they are afraid of what the wicked people will do].
in/on/with to rejoice righteous many beauty and in/on/with to arise: rise wicked to search man
13 Those who refuse to confess/admit their sins will not prosper, but [God] acts mercifully/kindly toward those who confess their sins and turn away from their sinful behavior.
to cover transgression his not to prosper and to give thanks and to leave: forsake to have compassion
14 [God] is pleased with those who always revere him, but those who are stubborn [IDM] will experience disasters.
blessed man to dread continually and to harden heart his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
15 Wicked people who [mistreat] poor people whom they rule are [as dangerous to them as] [SIM] a lion roaring [at them] or a bear springing up [to attack them].
lion to groan and bear to rush to rule wicked upon people poor
16 Rulers who do not have good sense cruelly oppress [the people they rule], but rulers who do not want to become rich by cheating/deceiving [people] will live (OR, rule) for a long time.
leader lacking understanding and many oppression (to hate *Q(K)*) unjust-gain to prolong day
17 Those who are guilty of murdering [MTY] another person will (be fugitives/keep running away) until they die; do not help them to escape.
man to oppress in/on/with blood soul: person till pit to flee not to grasp in/on/with him
18 Those who [continually] do what is right will be safe/protected, but those who are dishonest will [suddenly] be ruined.
to go: walk unblemished: blameless to save and to twist way: conduct to fall: fall in/on/with one
19 Farmers who work [hard] in their fields will [produce good crops and always] have plenty of food [to eat], but those who spend all their time (on useless projects/doing things that do not benefit anyone) will become very poor.
to serve: labour land: soil his to satisfy food: bread and to pursue worthless to satisfy poverty
20 [God] will greatly bless those who (are trustworthy/always do what they say that they will do), but he will certainly punish [LIT] those who try to become rich quickly.
man faithfulness many blessing and to hasten to/for to enrich not to clear
21 It is not good [for judges] to decide matters unfairly/unjustly, but [some] people will do what is wrong [even] if they receive [only] a very small bribe [HYP] [for doing it].
to recognize face: kindness not pleasant and upon morsel food: bread to transgress great man
22 Selfish people [IDM] are very eager to become rich quickly; they do not realize that they will [soon] become poor.
to dismay to/for substance man bad: evil eye: appearance and not to know for poverty to come (in): come him
23 Those who rebuke someone will be appreciated/thanked more than those who [say nice things to others merely] to (flatter them/cause them to feel good).
to rebuke man backwards me favor to find from to smooth tongue
24 Anyone who steals things from his father or his mother and says “That is not sinful” is as bad as a bandit.
to plunder father his and mother his and to say nothing transgression companion he/she/it to/for man to ruin
25 Greedy people cause trouble/strife; those who trust in Yahweh will prosper [IDM].
broad: arrogant soul: person to stir up strife and to trust upon LORD to prosper
26 Those who believe that what they think [is always right] are foolish; those who act wisely will (escape danger/be safe).
to trust in/on/with heart his he/she/it fool and to go: walk in/on/with wisdom he/she/it to escape
27 Those who give things to poor [people] will not become poor, but many [people] will curse those who refuse to help [IDM] poor people.
to give: give to/for be poor nothing need and to conceal eye his many curse
28 When wicked [people] become rulers, people hide [because they are afraid of what those wicked people will do]; but when wicked people are no longer rulers, good/righteous [people will] become the rulers.
in/on/with to arise: rise wicked to hide man and in/on/with to perish they to multiply righteous
