Proverbs 3:5-7,11-12 Annotated

Proverbs 3:5-7, 11-12 (NJB)

Trust wholeheartedly in Yahweh, put no faith in your own perception; acknowledge him in every course you take, and he will see that your paths are smooth.

Do not congratulate yourself on your own wisdom, fear Yahweh and turn your back on evil: health-giving, this, to your body, relief to your bones.

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My child, do not scorn correction from Yahweh, do not resent his reproof; for Yahweh reproves those he loves, as a father the child whom he loves.

Trust= בָּטַח= batach

to have confidence, be confident; to be bold; to be secure; to feel safe; confide in; to set one’s hope and confidence upon; to fear nothing

wholeheartedly= כֹּל= kol and leb = לֵב

Altogether; all, the whole of; totality, everything; any or every

inner man, mind, will, heart, understanding; mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory; seat of emotions and passions; used very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; the centre of anything;  

acknowledge= יָדַע= yada`

to perceive and see, find out and discern; to recognise, admit, acknowledge, confess; to know, be acquainted with; to be instructed; to know; to ascertain by seeing; recognition; comprehend, consider; seeing, observing; get to know; discover; know by experience; to turn the mind to

fear= יָרֵא= yare'

revere; to stand in awe of, be awed; to fear, reverence, honour, respect; morally to revere

turn your back on= סוּר= cuwr

to turn aside, depart; to depart, depart from way, avoid; to be removed; to come to an end; to put aside, leave undone, retract, reject, abolish; to turn off; decline; eschew; leave undone; be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt; escape; 

evil= רַע= ra`

bad, malignant; giving pain, unhappiness, misery; unkind (vicious in disposition); wicked (ethically); evil((-favouredness); deformed; badness, especially in an ethical sense; malice

correction= מוּסָר= muwcar

discipline, chastening, correction; reproof, warning or instruction; doctrine, instruction, rebuke; admonition 

reproof= תּוֹכֵחָה= towkechah

rebuke, correction, reproof, punishment, chastisement; argument, impeachment; refutation

reproves= יָכַח= yakach

rebuke, reprove, correct; argue; shew; confute;  

loves= אָהַב= 'ahab

to love; act of being a friend; God's love toward man; to like; to have affection for; to desire; to delight; to be verdant

loves= רָצָה= ratsah

to be pleased with, be favourable to, accept favourably; set affection; receive graciously; delight in the association of; graciously accepted