< Proverbs 3 >
1 My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
O son my instruction my may not you forget and commandments my let it keep heart your.
2 for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.
For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
3 Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Loyalty and faithfulness may not they leave you bind them on necks your write them on [the] tablet of heart your.
4 So you will find favour, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
And find favor and insight good in [the] eyes of God and humankind.
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
Trust to Yahweh with all heart your and to own understanding your may not you depend.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
In all ways your acknowledge him and he he will make straight paths your.
7 Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
May not you be wise in own eyes your fear Yahweh and turn aside from evil.
8 It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.
Healing may it be to navel your and refreshment to bones your.
9 Honour the LORD with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase;
Honor Yahweh from wealth your and from [the] first of all produce your.
10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
So they may be filled storehouses your plenty and new wine wine vats your they will burst open.
11 My son, don’t despise the LORD’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;
[the] discipline of Yahweh O son my may not you reject and may not you loath rebuke his.
12 for whom the LORD loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
For [the one] whom he loves Yahweh he reproves and like a father a son [whom] he is pleased with.
13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.
How blessed! [is] a person [who] he finds wisdom and a person [who] he obtains understanding.
14 For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.
For [is] good profit her more than [the] profit of silver and more than gold gain her.
15 She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
[is] precious She (more than jewels *Q(k)*) and all pleasures your not they compare with her.
16 Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honour.
Length of days [is] in right [hand] her [are] in left [hand] her wealth and honor.
17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
Ways her [are] ways of kindness and all pathways her [are] well-being.
18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
[is] a tree of Life she to [those who] take hold on her and [those who] hold fast to her [are] called blessed.
19 By wisdom the LORD founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.
Yahweh by wisdom he founded [the] earth he established [the] heavens by understanding.
20 By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.
By knowledge his [the] depths they were split open and clouds they dripped dew.
21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion,
O son my may not they depart from eyes your keep sound wisdom and discretion.
22 so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.
So they may be life for self your and grace for neck your.
23 Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble.
Then you will walk to security way your and foot your not it will strike.
24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
If you will lie down not you will fear and you will lie down and it will be pleasing sleep your.
25 Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes;
May not you be afraid from terror suddenly and from [the] devastation of wicked [people] that it will come.
26 for the LORD will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.
For Yahweh he will be confidence your and he will keep foot your from capture.
27 Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
May not you withhold good from owners its when belongs to [the] power of (hand your *Q(K)*) to do [it].
28 Don’t say to your neighbour, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.
May not you say (to neighbor your *Q(K)*) go and come back and tomorrow I will give [it] and there is with you.
29 Don’t devise evil against your neighbour, since he dwells securely by you.
May not you devise on neighbor your harm and he [is] dwelling to security with you.
30 Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.
May not (you contend *Q(k)*) with anyone without cause if not he has dealt out to you evil.
31 Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
May not you be jealous of a person of violence and may not you choose all ways his.
32 For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.
For [is] [the] abomination of Yahweh a crooked [person] and [is] with upright [people] intimacy his.
33 The LORD’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
[the] curse of Yahweh [is] on [the] house of [the] wicked and [the] habitation of righteous [people] he blesses.
34 Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
Though mockers he he mocks (and to humble [people] *Q(K)*) he gives favor.
35 The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.
Honor wise [people] they will inherit and fools [is] lifting up shame.