Proverbs 4
1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence.
to hear: hear son: descendant/people discipline: instruction father and to listen to/for to know understanding
2 I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.
for teaching pleasant to give: give to/for you instruction my not to leave: neglect
3 For I also was my father’s son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother:
for son: child to be to/for father my tender and only to/for face mother my
4 And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.
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 Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.
to buy wisdom to buy understanding not to forget and not to stretch from word lip my
6 Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.
not to leave: forsake her and to keep: obey you to love: lover her and to watch you
7 The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.
first: beginning wisdom to buy wisdom and in/on/with all acquisition your to buy understanding
8 Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her.
to build her and to exalt you to honor: honour you for to embrace her
9 She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.
to give: put to/for head your wreath favor crown beauty to deliver you
10 Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.
to hear: hear son: child my and to take: recieve word my and to multiply to/for you year life
11 I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:
in/on/with way: conduct wisdom to show you to tread you in/on/with track uprightness
12 Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock.
in/on/with to go: walk you not be distressed step your and if to run: run not to stumble
13 Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.
to strengthen: hold in/on/with discipline: instruction not to slacken to watch her for he/she/it life your
14 Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.
in/on/with way wicked not to come (in): come and not to bless in/on/with way: conduct bad: evil
15 Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.
to neglect him not to pass in/on/with him to turn aside from upon him and to pass
16 For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.
for not to sleep if: until not be evil and to plunder sleep their if: until not (to stumble *Q(K)*)
17 They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.
for to feed on food: bread wickedness and wine violence to drink
18 But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards and increaseth even to perfect day.
and way righteous like/as light brightness to go: continue and to light till to establish: prepare [the] day
19 The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.
way: conduct wicked like/as darkness not to know in/on/with what? to stumble
20 My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.
son: child my to/for word my to listen [emph?] to/for word my to stretch ear your
21 Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy 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 flesh.
for life they(masc.) to/for to find them and to/for all flesh his healing
23 With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
from all custody to watch heart your for from him outgoing life
24 Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.
to turn aside: remove from you crookedness lip: word and perversity lip: words to remove from you
25 Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.
eye your to/for before to look and eyelid your to smooth before you
26 Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.
to envy track foot your and all way: conduct your to establish: establish
27 Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.
not to stretch right and left to turn aside: depart foot your from bad: evil
