Proverbs 22

1 A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

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

2 The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

rich and be poor to meet to make all their LORD

3 A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

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

4 The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

consequence humility fear LORD riches and glory and life

5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked; whoever guards his soul stays 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 rule over the poor. 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 who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

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

9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.

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

10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

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

11 He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

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

12 Yahweh’s eyes watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.

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

13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed 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 who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

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

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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

16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

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

17 Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

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 you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

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

19 I teach you today, even you, so that your trust may be in Yahweh.

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

20 Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,

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

21 To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?

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

22 Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

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

23 for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

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

24 Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man. Don’t associate with one who harbors anger,

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

25 lest you learn his ways and ensnare your soul.

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

26 Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

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

27 If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

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

28 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.

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

29 Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve 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