Proverbs 11:1
dishonest scales <04820 03976> [A false balance is. Heb. Balances of deceit. are.]
accurate weight <068 08003> [a just weight. Heb. a perfect stone.]
Proverbs 10:1-32
Proverbs <04912> [proverbs.]
wise <02450> [A wise.]
Treasures <0214> [Treasures.]
righteousness <06666> [but.]
satisfies <07456> [will.]
thwarts <01920> [but.]
craving .... wicked <01942 07563> [the substance of the wicked. or, the wicked for their wickedness.]
poor <07326> [becometh.]
lazy <07423 03709> [with a slack hand.]
That is, slothfully and negligently.
one who works <03027> [but.]
gathers <0103> [gathereth.]
son ............ son <01121> [a son.]
Blessings <01293> [Blessings.]
violence <02555> [violence.]
memory <02143> [memory.]
reputation <08034> [the name.]
wise <02450> [wise.]
speaks <08193> [but.]
speaks foolishness <0191 08193> [prating fool. Heb. a fool of lips.]
ruin <03832> [fall. or, be beaten.]
<03212> [that walketh.]
perversely <06140> [but.]
winks <07169> [that.]
speaks <08193> [but.]
ruin <03832> [fall. or, be beaten.]
teaching .... righteous ....... but ... speech <06310 06662> [mouth of a.]
violence <02555> [but.]
Hatred <08135> [Hatred.]
love <0160> [love.]
words <08193> [the lips.]
disciplined <07626> [a rod.]
discerning ........ wisdom <0995 03820> [understanding. Heb. heart.]
store up <06845> [lay.]
speech <06310> [the mouth.]
rich <06223> [rich.]
ruin <04288> [the destruction.]
reward <06468> [labour.]
recompense <08393> [the fruit.]
way <0734> [the way.]
heeds <05800> [he that.]
astray <08582> [erreth. or, causeth to err.]
conceals <03680> [that hideth.]
spreads <03318> [that uttereth.]
abound <07230> [the multitude.]
restrains <02820> [but.]
say <03956> [tongue.]
think <03820> [the heart.]
feeds <07462> [feed.]
fools <0191> [fools.]
wisdom <03820> [wisdom. Heb. heart.]
rich <06238> [it.]
<03254> [he.]
fears <04034> [fear.]
desire <08378> [the desire.]
storm <05492> [the whirlwind.]
everlasting <05769> [an.]
vinegar <02558> [vinegar.]
smoke <06227> [as smoke.]
As the acidity of vinegar causes the unpleasantness and pain to the teeth, and by softening and dissolving the alkali of the bone, impairs their texture, and renders them incapable of mastication; and as smoke, by irritating the tender vessels, causes the eyes to smart, and prevents distinct vision; so a sluggish messenger is a continual vexation and loss to those by whom he is employed.
sluggard <06102> [so.]
Fearing <03374> [fear.]
prolongs <03254> [prolongeth. Heb. addeth. the years.]
hope <08431> [hope.]
expectation <08615> [but.]
way <01870> [way.]
destruction <04288> [but.]
never <05769> [never.]
wicked <07563> [the wicked.]
speech <06310> [mouth.]
perversion <08419> [the froward.]
know <03045> [know.]
speech <06310> [but.]
perverse <08419> [frowardness. Heb. frowardnesses.]
Proverbs 23:1-35
wear ... out <03021> [Labour.]
restrain <02308> [cease.]
gaze ............... fly <05774> [thou.]
gaze ... riches ............. fly <05869 05774> [set thine eyes upon. Heb. cause thine eyes to fly upon, etc.]
"He expresses it in such a way," says Abp. Tillotson, "as if a rich man sat brooding over an estate till it was fledged, and gotten itself wings to fly away."
make <06213> [that which.]
make <06213> [riches.]
stingy <07451> [an.]
crave <0183> [desire.]
calculating <08176> [as.]
Eat <0398> [Eat.]
speak <01696> [Speak.]
despise <0936> [he.]
move <05253> [Remove.]
boundary <01366> [landmark. or, bound. fatherless.]
child <01121> [My son.]
heart ...... heart <03820> [if.]
my <0589> [even mine. or, even I will rejoice.]
lips <08193> [thy.]
heart <03820> [not.]
fearing <03374> [be thou.]
is <03426> [surely.]
future <0319> [end. or, reward.]
hope <08615> [thine.]
guide <0833> [and guide.]
way <01870> [in the way.]
That is "in the right way."
drunkards <03196> [not.]
meat <01320> [flesh. Heb. their flesh.]
drunkards <05433> [the drunkard.]
drowsiness <05124> [drowsiness.]
Listen <08085> [Hearken.]
despise <0936> [despise.]
Acquire <07069> [Buy.]
sell <04376> [sell.]
father <01> [father.]
child .... joy ... him <08055> [shall have.]
bore <03205> [and she.]
son <01121> [My son.]
Give <05414> [give.]
eyes <05869> [let.]
robber <02863> [as for a prey. or, as a robber.]
increases <03254> [increaseth.]
woe <0188> [Who hath woe.]
dullness <02448> [redness.]
linger <0309> [tarry.]
mixed wine <04469> [mixed.]
That is, not wine diluted and lowered with water, but made stronger and more inebriating, by the addition of more powerful ingredients, as honey, spices, myrrh, defrutum, opiates, etc.
Afterward <0319> [At.]
bites <05391> [biteth.]
viper <06848> [an adder. or, a cockatrice.]
eyes <05869> [eyes.]
mind <03820> [and.]
lies down ............ lies down on <07901> [thou.]
midst <03820> [midst. Heb. heart.]
struck <05221> [stricken.]
know ...... awake <03045 06974> [I felt it not. Heb. I knew it not.]
look <01245> [I will.]
