< Proverbs 4 >

1 Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.
to hear: hear son: descendant/people discipline: instruction father and to listen to/for to know understanding
2 For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.
for teaching pleasant to give: give to/for you instruction my not to leave: neglect
3 For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,
for son: child to be to/for father my tender and only to/for face mother my
4 When he taught me, and sayde vnto me, Let thine heart holde fast my woordes: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue.
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 wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes 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 shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.
not to leave: forsake her and to keep: obey you to love: lover her and to watch you
7 Wisedome is the beginning: get wisedome therefore: and aboue all thy possession get vnderstanding.
first: beginning wisdom to buy wisdom and in/on/with all acquisition your to buy understanding
8 Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her.
to build her and to exalt you to honor: honour you for to embrace her
9 She shall giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shall giue thee a crowne of glorie.
to give: put to/for head your wreath favor crown beauty to deliver you
10 Heare, my sonne, and receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.
to hear: hear son: child my and to take: recieve word my and to multiply to/for you year life
11 I haue taught thee in ye way of wisedom, and led thee in the pathes of righteousnesse.
in/on/with way: conduct wisdom to show you to tread you in/on/with track uprightness
12 Whe thou goest, thy gate shall not be strait, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.
in/on/with to go: walk you not be distressed step your and if to run: run not to stumble
13 Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee is thy life.
to strengthen: hold in/on/with discipline: instruction not to slacken to watch her for he/she/it life your
14 Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.
in/on/with way wicked not to come (in): come and not to bless in/on/with way: conduct bad: evil
15 Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.
to neglect him not to pass in/on/with him to turn aside from upon him and to pass
16 For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause 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 For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.
for to feed on food: bread wickedness and wine violence to drink
18 But the way of the righteous shineth as the light, that shineth more and more vnto the perfite 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 as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.
way: conduct wicked like/as darkness not to know in/on/with what? to stumble
20 My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto 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 thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.
not be devious from eye: seeing your to keep: obey them in/on/with midst heart your
22 For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.
for life they(masc.) to/for to find them and to/for all flesh his healing
23 Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life.
from all custody to watch heart your for from him outgoing life
24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.
to turn aside: remove from you crookedness lip: word and perversity lip: words to remove from you
25 Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyelids direct thy way before thee.
eye your to/for before to look and eyelid your to smooth before you
26 Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright.
to envy track foot your and all way: conduct your to establish: establish
27 Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.
not to stretch right and left to turn aside: depart foot your from bad: evil

< Proverbs 4 >