Proverbs 4
1 Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
to hear: hear son: descendant/people discipline: instruction father and to listen to/for to know understanding
2 For I give you a good gift; forsake you not my law.
for teaching pleasant to give: give to/for you instruction my not to leave: neglect
3 For I also was a son obedient to [my] father, and loved in the sight of [my] mother:
for son: child to be to/for father my tender and only to/for face mother my
4 who spoke and instructed me, [saying], Let our speech be fixed in your heart, keep [our] commandments, forget them not:
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 and do not neglect the speech of my mouth.
to buy wisdom to buy understanding not to forget and not to stretch from word lip my
6 And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to you: love it, and it shall keep you.
not to leave: forsake her and to keep: obey you to love: lover her and to watch you
first: beginning wisdom to buy wisdom and in/on/with all acquisition your to buy understanding
8 Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honour it, that it may embrace you;
to build her and to exalt you to honor: honour you for to embrace her
9 that it may give to your head a crown of graces, and may cover you with a crown of delight.
to give: put to/for head your wreath favor crown beauty to deliver you
10 Hear, [my] son, and receive my words; and the years of your life shall be increased, that the resources of your life may be many.
to hear: hear son: child my and to take: recieve word my and to multiply to/for you year life
11 For I teach you the ways of wisdom; and I cause you to go in right paths.
in/on/with way: conduct wisdom to show you to tread you in/on/with track uprightness
12 For when you go, your steps shall not be straitened; and when you run, you shall not be distressed.
in/on/with to go: walk you not be distressed step your and if to run: run not to stumble
13 Take hold of my instruction; let it not go, —but keep it for yourself for your life.
to strengthen: hold in/on/with discipline: instruction not to slacken to watch her for he/she/it life your
14 Go not in the ways of the ungodly, neither covet the ways of transgressors.
in/on/with way wicked not to come (in): come and not to bless in/on/with way: conduct bad: evil
15 In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not there; but turn from them, and pass away.
to neglect him not to pass in/on/with him to turn aside from upon him and to pass
16 For they can’t sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.
for not to sleep if: until not be evil and to plunder sleep their if: until not (to stumble *Q(K)*)
17 For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression.
for to feed on food: bread wickedness and wine violence to drink
18 But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come.
and way righteous like/as light brightness to go: continue and to light till to establish: prepare [the] day
19 But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble.
way: conduct wicked like/as darkness not to know in/on/with what? to stumble
20 [My] son, attend to my speech; and apply your ear to my words:
son: child my to/for word my to listen [emph?] to/for word my to stretch ear your
21 that your fountains may not fail you; keep them in [your] heart.
not be devious from eye: seeing your to keep: obey them in/on/with midst heart your
22 For they are life to those that find them, and health to all [their] flesh.
for life they(masc.) to/for to find them and to/for all flesh his healing
23 Keep your heart with the utmost care; for out of these are the issues of life.
from all custody to watch heart your for from him outgoing life
24 Remove from you a froward mouth, and put far away from you unjust lips.
to turn aside: remove from you crookedness lip: word and perversity lip: words to remove from you
25 Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids assent [to] just [things].
eye your to/for before to look and eyelid your to smooth before you
26 Make straight paths for your feet, and order your ways aright.
to envy track foot your and all way: conduct your to establish: establish
27 Turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, but turn away your foot from an evil way.
not to stretch right and left to turn aside: depart foot your from bad: evil
