Malasu 4
1 Nagofelali! Dilia ada adi olelesea noga: le nabima! Amasea dili da Bagade Dawa: su Hou ida: iwane gala dawa: mu.
to hear: hear son: descendant/people discipline: instruction father and to listen to/for to know understanding
2 Na adi olelebe amo da moloi houdafa. Amaiba: le, dili da eso huluane dawa: laloma.
for teaching pleasant to give: give to/for you instruction my not to leave: neglect
3 Amola na mano fonobahadiga na da na ada ea mano afadafa galu.
for son: child to be to/for father my tender and only to/for face mother my
4 Amola na ada e da nama moloidafa hou olelesu. E da amane sia: su, “Dawa: ma! Amola na sia: mae gogolema amola na sia: defele hamoma. Amasea, dili da esalusu lamu.
and to show me and to say to/for me to grasp word my heart your to keep: obey commandment my and to live
5 Bagade Dawa: su Hou hogoi helema. Na sia: mae gogolema amola mae higama!
to buy wisdom to buy understanding not to forget and not to stretch from word lip my
6 Dili da Bagade Dawa: su Hou ida: iwane gala amoma mae higama. Amasea, amo hou da dilia gaga: su agoane ba: mu. Bagade Dawa: su Hou asigiwane ba: ma. Amasea, amo hou da dili gaga: mu.
not to leave: forsake her and to keep: obey you to love: lover her and to watch you
7 Amola Bagade Dawa: su Hou lamu amo hou da ida: iwanedafa gala. Amola liligi oda amoga Bagade Dawa: su Hou da baligi dagoi.
first: beginning wisdom to buy wisdom and in/on/with all acquisition your to buy understanding
8 Bagade Dawa: su Hou amoma hanama amola amane hou hamosea, dili da dunu hahawanedafa esalumu amola asigi dawa: su bagade dawa: su lamu.
to build her and to exalt you to honor: honour you for to embrace her
9 Amo Bagade Dawa: su Hou da dunu huluane ba: ma: ne hamoma, amo hou ida: iwane gala amo ea dilia hou bagade dawa: su ba: mu.
to give: put to/for head your wreath favor crown beauty to deliver you
10 Nagofe! Noga: le nabima amola dafawane sia: sa noga: le lalegaguma. Amasea di da osobo bagadega fifi masunu.
to hear: hear son: child my and to take: recieve word my and to multiply to/for you year life
11 Na Bagade Dawa: su Hou olelei amo noga: le dawa: ma. Amasea, di da fifi asi helemu amo logo ganodini.
in/on/with way: conduct wisdom to show you to tread you in/on/with track uprightness
12 Dima eno hou hame doaga: mu di moloi ahoanea da. Amola dia hehenasea da hame dafamu.
in/on/with to go: walk you not be distressed step your and if to run: run not to stumble
13 Eso huluane dima hou olelei amoma dawa: ma amola amo da maedafa gogolema amoga dia esalalasu fidimu amola noga: le ouligima.
to strengthen: hold in/on/with discipline: instruction not to slacken to watch her for he/she/it life your
14 Wadela: le hamosu dunu ilia ahoabe amoga mae masa. Amola wadela: le hamosu dunu ilia hou amoga mae lama.
in/on/with way wicked not to come (in): come and not to bless in/on/with way: conduct bad: evil
15 Amane mae hamoma wadela: i hou amoma gasigama. Amola amoma higale amola dia moloi logoga masa.
to neglect him not to pass in/on/with him to turn aside from upon him and to pass
16 Wadela: le hamosu dunu ilia da wadela: le hame hamosea, hamedafa golasa. Ilia da wadela: le hamomusa: nedigili ouesala amola eno dunuma wadela: le hamonanu fawane golasa.
for not to sleep if: until not be evil and to plunder sleep their if: until not (to stumble *Q(K)*)
17 Wadela: i hou amola gegesu hou da ilia ha: i manu amola hano nasu agoai gala.
for to feed on food: bread wickedness and wine violence to drink
18 Moloidafa dunu ilia logo da eso mabe defele ba: sa, hahawane bagade. Amola hadigi da misini, dialea, eso dogoa defele ba: sa.
and way righteous like/as light brightness to go: continue and to light till to establish: prepare [the] day
19 Be wadela: le hamosu dunu ilia logo da gasi bagade ba: sa amola hedolo dafasa amola ili soi amo da ili hame ba: sa.
way: conduct wicked like/as darkness not to know in/on/with what? to stumble
20 Nagofe! Na sia: dia noga: le nabima.
son: child my to/for word my to listen [emph?] to/for word my to stretch ear your
21 Amo dia maedafa gogolema, eso huluane dawa: loma, dia dogo ganodini.
not be devious from eye: seeing your to keep: obey them in/on/with midst heart your
22 Na sia: da nowa dunu da amo noga: le dawa: sea, amo da esalusu imunu, amola ea da: i fidimu.
for life they(masc.) to/for to find them and to/for all flesh his healing
23 Dawa: ma! Dia asigiga dawa: su noga: le ouligima. Bai dia esalusu da dia asigi dawa: su dawa: i liligi amo defele ba: mu.
from all custody to watch heart your for from him outgoing life
24 Sia: dafawane hame, ogogole maedafa sia: ma. Amola ogogosu hou amoma mae gilisima.
to turn aside: remove from you crookedness lip: word and perversity lip: words to remove from you
25 Mae beda: iwane molole ba: le gusuma! Dia da hou moloiwane hamobeba: le, dia dialuma da gogosiane fili sa: imu da defea hame.
eye your to/for before to look and eyelid your to smooth before you
26 Dia adi hamosea, noga: le dawa: lu hamoma amola adi hou dia hamobe amo da bu sinidigili hahawane ba: mu.
to envy track foot your and all way: conduct your to establish: establish
27 Wadela: i hou dawa: ma! Moloiwane ahoanoma! Amola sadena: ne dafasa: besa: le dawa: ma.
not to stretch right and left to turn aside: depart foot your from bad: evil
