Proverb Chapter 18

 Prov 18

Proverb of Solomon continues...

1 By being obstinate, you will separate yourself and seek after your desire and resourcefulness:

2 if you are willing to discover the heart of a fool, it is by discernment/reasoning:

3 The wicked, because of disrespect/contempt, will come into infamy (known for bad things) and come into public disgrace:

4 the mouth of a man of wisdom is like estate with valley of stream and his spoken words is like water gushing out from a deep-well.

5 it is good, if a wicked lift up his face to the Righteous who stretch out the verdicts:

6 from the lip of the foolish comes contention, and his mouth call out for a beating:

7 from the mouth of a fool is a protest, and from his lips is a snare to souls:

8 Spoken-words by grinchy (joy-killer) or quarrelsome one, will burn or wound the belly as you go down into the inner-chamber/room.

9 for a master that is slacken/feeble, the business/deputyship of his brother to him will be a waste/corrupted.

10 like running into a tower which is made lofty/to be safe (sawgab), so is the security/strength of the Name/Position of Jehovah unto the Righteous.

11 the fortune of a rich man is in the security/strength of their city-capital with a wall made lofty with joined imagery:

12 before fracture/breach, the heart of man is made lofty/haughty and before glory is humility:

13 spoken words will restore the insult heard from foolishness  

14 by the SPIRIT (of God) a man will be lifted up in illness/infirmity - and by the SPIRIT who would have sustained an afflicted one?

15 the wise seek after knowledge, his ears and heart that understands will get knowledge -

16 A gift from Adam would have enlarged him and guided/led him into the presence of greater ones. 

17 the Righteous - will come first in a contest, when it comes to searching out/close examination:

18 You will desist to exert self (Shabat) on contention over a portion/lots by separating yourself from powerful ones. 

19 When a brother with great strength/security is in a contention, it is like breaking away of a latch/lock to a Palace in Borough/city-capital: 

20 when a fruit is in the mouth - the belly may be satisfied and so a man shall be satisfied with the produce/yield of lips:

21 having eaten the fruit in his hand, either he loves life or death is by his tongue.

22 it is a good thing to find a wife, even to find the delight/will furnished by Jehovah:

23 As the poor rehearses his pleading, the rich answers fiercely/roughly:

24 there exist a man that will do evil to his friends, but the adhering of a brother is to love.