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1) [line 1] LO YILMOD ADAM RAVAK SOFRIM - an unmarried man should not teach young children

2a) [line 22] HORA'TI MA'ASAI - I have corrupted my deeds
b) [line 22] V'KIPACHTI ES PARNASASI - and lost my entitlement to my sustenance [coming directly from HaSh-m]

3) [line 22] ISH TZADYAN - a man of Sidon, a city on the Mediterranean coast, to the north of modern-day Israel. It was the capital of Phonecia. It is within the northwest boundary of the Holy Land (Bamidbar 34:7).

4a) [line 23] CHAMAR - donkey driver
b) [line 23] GAMAL - camel driver
c) [line 23] KADAR - wagon driver (RASHI here; elsewhere (Kesuvos 24b, Chagigah 24b), "Kadar" means a pottery maker. TOSFOS to Bava Metzia (75b DH Es) explains that a pottery maker usually drives a wagon to sell his wares, and thus the word can also refer to a wagon driver)
d) [line 23] SAPAN - sailor
e) [line 23] RO'EH - shepherd
f) [line 24] CHENVANI - storekeeper

5) [line 25] TOV SHEB'ROF'IM L'GEHINOM - the best of the doctors [will go] to Gehinom (see Insights)

6) [line 26] HA'KASHER SHEBA'TABACHIM SHUTFO SHEL AMALEK - the most fit of slaughterers is a partner with Amalek

7) [line 26] REBBI NEHORAI - (a) Rebbi Nechemya, student of Rebbi Akiva, who was known as Rebbi "Meir," i.e. "the one who lights up [the eyes of the wise through his Halachic teachings];" the translation of "Meir" in Aramaic is "Nehorai" (Eruvin 13b); (b) Rebbi Elazar ben Arach, student of Rebbi Yochanan ben Zakai, known as Rebbi Nehorai for the same reason as above (ibid.)

8a) [line 27] OCHEL MI'SECHARAH B'OLAM HA'ZEH - he eats from its reward in this world
b) [line 28] HA'KEREN KAYEMES LO LA'OLAM HA'BA - the principle is completely intact for him in the World to Come

9a) [line 30] ACHARIS - a hopeful future
b) [line 30] TIKVAH - good hope

10) [line 31] "V'KOYEI HASH-M YACHLIFU CHOA'ACH" - "And those who hope in HaSh-m will have renewed strength." (Yeshayah 40:31)

11) [line 31] "OD YENUVUN B'SEIVAH, DESHENIM V'RA'ANANIM YIHEYU" - "They will still be fruitful in old age, strong and fresh they will be." (Tehilim 92:15)

12) [line 35] SURO RA - his character is bad (he will not be a trustworthy associate, - RASHI)

13a) [line 35] TZORFIM - goldsmiths
b) [line 36] SARIKIM (O.F. flochiedres) - those who comb the garments of women to raise the fibers to make the fabric feel soft
c) [line 36] NEKUROS - (a) those who sharpen the hand millstones, which were used to grind flour for daily use; (b) those who bore holes in the millstones, into which the handles were attached
d) [line 36] ROCHLIN - peddlers of spices
e) [line 36] GARDIYIM - weavers
f) [line 36] SAPARIM - barbers
g) [line 36] KOVSIM - launderers
h) [line 36] GARA - bloodletter
i) [line 36] BALAN - bathhouse attendant
j) [line 37] BURSEKI - a tanner

14) [line 1] MACHATA D'TALMEYUSA - (a) (O.F. brosder ganbais) embroidery of a doublet (a kind of close-fitting jacket), in which the stitches are in lines like furrows in a field (RASHI); (b) a tailor who sews seams (ARUCH)

15) [line 4] BASAM - a person who deals in spices and perfumes
16) [line 11] "LI HA'KESEF V'LI HA'ZAHAV, NE'UM HASH-M TZEVAKOS" - "Mine is the silver and Mine is the gold, says HaSh-m Tzevakos." (Chagai 2:8)

17a) [line 13] KAYATZ - a watchman who guards the cut figs ("Ketzi'os") which are laying in the field to dry
b) [line 13] SABAL - a porter

18) [line 16] "AVONOSEICHEM HITU [ELEH V'CHATOSEICHEM MAN'U HA'TOV MI'KEM.]" - "Your iniquities have turned away [these (blessings), and your sins have withheld the good from you.]" (Yirmeyahu 5:25)

19a) [line 18] YEMEI YALDUSO - the days of his youth
b) [line 18] YEMEI ZIKNUSO - the days of his old age

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