Proverbs 4
1 Listen to O children [the] correction of a father and be attentive to know understanding.
Hear, ye children, the correction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
2 For instruction good I give to you instruction my may not you neglect.
For good information do I give you: my teaching must ye not forsake.
3 If a son I was of father my tender and only [child] before mother my.
For I was a son unto my father, a tender and an only child before my mother.
4 And he taught me and he said to me let it hold fast to words my heart your keep commandments my and live.
And he instructed me, and said unto me, Let thy heart grasp firmly my words: observe my commandments and live.
5 Acquire wisdom acquire understanding may not you forget and may not you turn aside from [the] utterances of mouth my.
Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding: forget not, and depart not from the sayings of my mouth.
6 May not you abandon her and she will keep you love her and she will guard you.
Forsake her not, and she will watch over thee: love her, and she will keep thee.
7 [is] first Wisdom acquire wisdom and by all acquisition your acquire understanding.
The beginning of wisdom is, Acquire wisdom: and with all thy acquisition acquire understanding.
8 Esteem her and she will exalt you she will honor you if you will embrace her.
Hold her in high esteem, and she will exalt thee: she will bring thee to honor, when thou embracest her.
9 She will put to head your a wreath of grace a crown of beauty she will give you.
She will give to thy head a wreath of grace: a crown of ornament will she deliver to thee.
10 Listen O son my and receive words my so they may increase for you years of life.
Hear, O my son, and accept my sayings: and they will increase unto thee the years of life.
11 [the] way of Wisdom I taught you I led you in tracks of uprightness.
In the way of wisdom have I instructed thee: I have led thee in the tracks of uprightness.
12 When walking you not anyone will hinder step[s] your and if you will run not you will stumble.
When thou walkest, thy step shall not be narrowed; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
13 Take hold on discipline may not you let go keep her for she [is] life your.
Lay fast hold of correction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
14 In [the] path of wicked [people] may not you go and may not you advance in [the] way of evil [people].
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and step not on the way of the bad.
15 Avoid it may not you pass along on it turn aside from on it and pass on.
Avoid it, pass not through by it, turn off from it, and pass away.
16 For not they will sleep if not they do harm and it is taken away sleep their if not (they bring injury. *Q(K)*)
For they sleep not, except they have done evil, and their sleep is robbed away, unless they cause some to stumble.
17 For they eat [the] bread of wickedness and [the] wine of violence they drink.
For they eat the bread of wickedness; and the wine of violence do they drink.
18 And [the] path of righteous [people] [is] like a light of brightness [which] goes and [which] shines until [the] established [part] of the day.
But the path of the righteous is as the early morning light, that shineth more and more brightly until the height of noonday.
19 [the] way of Wicked [people] [is] like darkness not they know on what? are they stumbling.
The way of the wicked is like darkness: they know not against what they stumble.
20 O son my to words my be attentive! to utterances my incline ear your.
My son, attend to my words, unto my sayings incline thy ear.
21 Do not let them depart from eyes your keep them in [the] midst of heart your.
Let them not slip away from thy eyes: guard them in the midst of thy heart.
22 For [are] life they to [those who] find them and to all flesh his health.
For they are life unto every one of those that find them, and to all his body a healing.
23 More than all guarding guard heart your for [are] from it [the] sources of life.
Above all that is to be guarded, keep thy heart, for out of it are the issues of life.
24 Remove from yourself crookedness of mouth and deviousness of lips put far away from yourself.
Remove from thee frowardness of mouth; and perverseness of lips put away far from thee.
25 Eyes your before let them look and eyelids your let them look straight before you.
Let thy eyes look right forward, and let thy eyelids see straight out before thee.
26 Make level [the] track of foot your and all ways your let them be steadfast.
Balance well the track of thy foot, and let all thy ways be firmly right.
27 May not you turn aside right and left turn aside foot your from evil.
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
