Proverbs 23
1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
for to dwell to/for to feed on with to rule to understand to understand [obj] which to/for face: before your
2 put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
and to set: put knife in/on/with throat your if master: men soul: appetite you(m. s.)
3 Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his and he/she/it food lie
4 Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
not be weary/toil to/for to enrich from understanding your to cease
5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
( to fly *Q(K)*) eye your in/on/with him and nothing he for to make to make to/for him wing like/as eagle (to fly *Q(K)*) [the] heaven
6 Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,
not to feed on [obj] food: bread bad: evil eye: appearance and not (to desire *Q(K)*) to/for delicacy his
7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
for like to calculate in/on/with soul his so he/she/it to eat and to drink to say to/for you and heart his not with you
8 You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
morsel your to eat to vomit her and to ruin word your [the] pleasant
9 Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
in/on/with ear: hearing fool not to speak: speak for to despise to/for understanding speech your
10 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity and in/on/with land: country orphan not to come (in): come
11 for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
for to redeem: redeem their strong he/she/it to contend [obj] strife their with you
12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
to come (in): bring [emph?] to/for discipline: instruction heart your and ear your to/for word knowledge
13 Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
not to withhold from youth discipline for to smite him in/on/with tribe: staff not to die
you(m. s.) in/on/with tribe: staff to smite him and soul his from hell: Sheol to rescue (Sheol h7585)
15 My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.
son: child my if be wise heart your to rejoice heart my also I
16 Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
and to exult kidney my in/on/with to speak: speak lips your uprightness
17 Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
not be jealous heart your in/on/with sinner that if: except if: except in/on/with fear LORD all [the] day
18 Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.
that if: except if: except there end and hope your not to cut: eliminate
19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!
to hear: hear you(m. s.) son: child my and be wise and to bless in/on/with way: conduct heart your
20 Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat;
not to be in/on/with to imbibe wine in/on/with be vile flesh to/for them
21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
for to imbibe and be vile to possess: poor and rags to clothe drowsiness
22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
to hear: hear to/for father your this to beget you and not to despise for be old mother your
23 Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
truth: true to buy and not to sell wisdom and discipline: instruction and understanding
24 The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
(to rejoice to rejoice *Q(k)*) father righteous (and to beget *Q(K)*) wise (to rejoice *Q(K)*) in/on/with to rejoice
25 Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
to rejoice father your and mother your and to rejoice to beget you
26 My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
to give: give [emph?] son: child my heart your to/for me and eye your way: conduct my (to watch *Q(K)*)
27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
for pit deep to fornicate and well narrow foreign
28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
also he/she/it like/as robber to ambush and to act treacherously in/on/with man to add
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
to/for who? woe! to/for who? pain! to/for who? (contention *Q(K)*) to/for who? complaint to/for who? wound for nothing to/for who? dullness eye
30 Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.
to/for to delay upon [the] wine to/for to come (in): come to/for to search mixed drink
31 Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
not to see: see wine for to redden for to give: do (in/on/with cup *Q(K)*) eye his to go: went in/on/with uprightness
32 In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
end his like/as serpent to bite and like/as serpent to pierce
33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.
eye your to see: see be a stranger and heart your to speak: speak perversity
34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:
and to be like/as to lie down: lay down in/on/with heart sea and like/as to lie down: lay down in/on/with head: top mast
35 “They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I will look for more.”
to smite me not be weak: ill to smite me not to know how to awake to add to seek him still
