Proverbs 22

1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

to choose name from riches many from silver: money and from gold favor pleasant

2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

rich and be poor to meet to make all their LORD

3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

prudent to see: see distress: harm (and to hide *Qk) and simple to pass and to fine

4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.

consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life

5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

thorn snare in/on/with way: conduct twisted to keep: guard soul his to remove from them

6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

to dedicate to/for youth upon lip: word way: conduct his also for be old not to turn aside: depart from her

7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

rich in/on/with be poor to rule and servant/slave to borrow to/for man to borrow

8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

to sow injustice (to reap *Qk) evil: trouble and tribe: staff fury his to end: expend

9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

pleasant eye he/she/it to bless for to give: give from food: bread his to/for poor

10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall end; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

to drive out: drive out to mock and to come out: come strife and to cease judgment and dishonor

11 He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

to love: lover (pure *Qk) heart favor lip: words his neighbor his king

12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

eye LORD to watch knowledge and to pervert word to act treacherously

13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion outside, I shall be slain in the streets.

to say sluggish lion in/on/with outside in/on/with midst street/plaza to murder

14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he that is abhorred by the LORD shall fall in it.

pit deep lip be a stranger be indignant LORD (to fall: fall *Qk) there

15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

folly to conspire in/on/with heart youth tribe: staff discipline to remove her from him

16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

to oppress poor to/for to multiply to/for him to give: give to/for rich surely to/for need

17 Bow down thy ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart to my knowledge.

to stretch ear your and to hear: hear word wise and heart your to set: make to/for knowledge my

18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall all be ready on thy lips.

for pleasant for to keep: guard them in/on/with belly: body your to establish: prepare together upon lips your

19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

to/for to be in/on/with LORD confidence your to know you [the] day also you(m. s.)

20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

not to write to/for you (officer *QK) in/on/with counsel and knowledge

21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send to thee?

to/for to know you truth word truth: true to/for to return: reply word truth: true to/for to send: depart you

22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

not to plunder poor for poor he/she/it and not to crush afflicted in/on/with gate

23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

for LORD to contend strife their and to rob [obj] to rob them soul: life

24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

not to accompany with master: men face: anger and with man rage not to come (in): come

25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

lest to teach/learn (way his *QK) and to take: recieve snare to/for soul: myself your

26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

not to be in/on/with to blow palm in/on/with to pledge loan

27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

if nothing to/for you to/for to complete to/for what? to take: take bed your from underneath: under you

28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

not to remove border: boundary forever: antiquity which to make father your

29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

to see man quick in/on/with work his to/for face: before king to stand not to stand to/for face: before obscure