< Proverbs 28 >

1 The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.
to flee and nothing to pursue wicked and righteous like/as lion to trust
2 By the transgression of a land many [are] its heads. And by an intelligent man, Who knoweth right — it is prolonged.
in/on/with transgression land: country/planet many ruler her and in/on/with man to understand to know right to prolong
3 A man — poor and oppressing the weak, [Is] a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.
great man be poor and to oppress poor rain to prostatrate and nothing food
4 Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.
to leave: forsake instruction to boast: praise wicked and to keep: obey instruction to stir up in/on/with them
5 Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.
human bad: evil not to understand justice and to seek LORD to understand all
6 Better [is] the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.
pleasant be poor to go: walk in/on/with integrity his from twisted way: conduct and he/she/it rich
7 Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.
to watch instruction son: child to understand and to accompany be vile be humiliated father his
8 Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.
to multiply substance his in/on/with interest (and increment *Q(K)*) to/for be gracious poor to gather him
9 Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer [is] an abomination.
to turn aside: depart ear his from to hear: hear instruction also prayer his abomination
10 Whoso is causing the upright to err in an evil way, Into his own pit he doth fall, And the perfect do inherit good.
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 A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.
wise in/on/with eye his man rich and poor to understand to search him
12 In the exulting of the righteous the glory [is] abundant, And in the rising of the wicked man is apprehensive.
in/on/with to rejoice righteous many beauty and in/on/with to arise: rise wicked to search man
13 Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.
to cover transgression his not to prosper and to give thanks and to leave: forsake to have compassion
14 O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.
blessed man to dread continually and to harden heart his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
15 A growling lion, and a ranging bear, [Is] the wicked ruler over a poor people.
lion to groan and bear to rush to rule wicked upon people poor
16 A leader lacking understanding multiplieth oppressions, Whoso is hating dishonest gain prolongeth days.
leader lacking understanding and many oppression (to hate *Q(K)*) unjust-gain to prolong day
17 A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.
man to oppress in/on/with blood soul: person till pit to flee not to grasp in/on/with him
18 Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.
to go: walk unblemished: blameless to save and to twist way: conduct to fall: fall in/on/with one
19 Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied [with] bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled [with] poverty.
to serve: labour land: soil his to satisfy food: bread and to pursue worthless to satisfy poverty
20 A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.
man faithfulness many blessing and to hasten to/for to enrich not to clear
21 To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.
to recognize face: kindness not pleasant and upon morsel food: bread to transgress great man
22 Troubled for wealth [is] the man [with] an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.
to dismay to/for substance man bad: evil eye: appearance and not to know for poverty to come (in): come him
23 Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.
to rebuke man backwards me favor to find from to smooth tongue
24 Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, 'It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.
to plunder father his and mother his and to say nothing transgression companion he/she/it to/for man to ruin
25 Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.
broad: arrogant soul: person to stir up strife and to trust upon LORD to prosper
26 Whoso is trusting in his heart is a fool, And whoso is walking in wisdom is delivered.
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 Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.
to give: give to/for be poor nothing need and to conceal eye his many curse
28 In the rising of the wicked a man is hidden, And in their destruction the righteous multiply!
in/on/with to arise: rise wicked to hide man and in/on/with to perish they to multiply righteous

< Proverbs 28 >