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 you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,
2 to snare in/on/with word lip your to capture in/on/with word lip your
you are trapped by the words of your mouth; you are ensnared with the words of your mouth.
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
Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.
4 not to give: give sleep to/for eye your and slumber to/for eyelid your
Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
5 to rescue like/as gazelle from hand and like/as bird from hand fowler
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6 to go: went to(wards) ant sluggish to see: examine way: conduct her and be wise
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
7 which nothing to/for her chief official and to rule
which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
8 to establish: prepare in/on/with summer food: bread her to gather in/on/with harvest food her
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
9 till how sluggish to lie down: lay down how to arise: rise from sleep your
How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
10 little sleep little slumber little folding hand to/for to lie down: sleep
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep—
11 and to come (in): come like/as to go: follow poverty your and need your like/as man shield
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
12 man Belial: worthless man evil: wickedness to go: walk crookedness lip: word
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
13 to wink (in/on/with eye his *QK) to rub (in/on/with foot his *QK) to show in/on/with finger his
who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,
14 perversity in/on/with heart his to plow/plot bad: evil in/on/with all time (contention *QK) to send: depart
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
15 upon so suddenly to come (in): come calamity his suddenness to break and nothing healing
Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
16 six they(fem.) to hate LORD and seven (abomination *QK) soul: myself his
There are six things which the LORD hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
17 eye to exalt tongue deception and hand to pour: kill blood innocent
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
18 heart to plow/plot plot evil: wickedness foot to hasten to/for to run: run to/for distress: evil
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
19 to breathe lie witness deception and to send: depart strife between brother: male-sibling
a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
20 to watch son: child my commandment father your and not to leave instruction mother your
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
21 to conspire them upon heart your continually to bind them upon neck your
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them 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
When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
23 for lamp commandment and instruction light and way: conduct life argument discipline
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
24 to/for to keep: guard you from woman bad: evil from smoothness tongue foreign
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
25 not to desire beauty her in/on/with heart your and not to take: take you in/on/with eyelid her
Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
26 for about/through/for woman to fornicate till talent food: bread and woman man: husband soul: life precious to hunt
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
27 to snatch up man fire in/on/with bosom: lap his and garment his not to burn
Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?
28 if to go: walk man upon [the] coal and foot his not to burn
Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
29 so [the] to come (in): come to(wards) woman: wife neighbor his not to clear all [the] to touch in/on/with her
So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
30 not to despise to/for thief for to steal to/for to fill soul: appetite his for be hungry
Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry,
31 and to find to complete sevenfold [obj] all substance house: home his to give: give
but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.
32 to commit adultery woman lacking heart to ruin soul: myself his he/she/it to make: do her
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
33 plague and dishonor to find and reproach his not to wipe
He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.
34 for jealousy rage great man and not to spare in/on/with day vengeance
For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He will not spare in the day of vengeance.
35 not to lift: kindness face: kindness all ransom and not be willing for to multiply bribe
He will not regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
