Proverbs 4
1 Listen to O children [the] correction of a father and be attentive to know understanding.
to hear: hear son: descendant/people discipline: instruction father and to listen to/for to know understanding
2 For instruction good I give to you instruction my may not you neglect.
for teaching pleasant to give: give to/for you instruction my not to leave: neglect
3 If a son I was of father my tender and only [child] before mother my.
for son: child to be to/for father my tender and only to/for face mother my
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 to show me and to say to/for me to grasp word my heart your to keep: obey commandment my and to live
5 Acquire wisdom acquire understanding may not you forget and may not you turn aside from [the] utterances of mouth my.
to buy wisdom to buy understanding not to forget and not to stretch from word lip my
6 May not you abandon her and she will keep you love her and she will guard you.
not to leave: forsake her and to keep: obey you to love: lover her and to watch you
7 [is] first Wisdom acquire wisdom and by all acquisition your acquire understanding.
first: beginning wisdom to buy wisdom and in/on/with all acquisition your to buy understanding
8 Esteem her and she will exalt you she will honor you if you will embrace her.
to build her and to exalt you to honor: honour you for to embrace her
9 She will put to head your a wreath of grace a crown of beauty she will give you.
to give: put to/for head your wreath favor crown beauty to deliver you
10 Listen O son my and receive words my so they may increase for you years of life.
to hear: hear son: child my and to take: recieve word my and to multiply to/for you year life
11 [the] way of Wisdom I taught you I led you in tracks of uprightness.
in/on/with way: conduct wisdom to show you to tread you in/on/with track uprightness
12 When walking you not anyone will hinder step[s] your and if you will run not you will stumble.
in/on/with to go: walk you not be distressed step your and if to run: run not to stumble
13 Take hold on discipline may not you let go keep her for she [is] life your.
to strengthen: hold in/on/with discipline: instruction not to slacken to watch her for he/she/it life your
14 In [the] path of wicked [people] may not you go and may not you advance in [the] way of evil [people].
in/on/with way wicked not to come (in): come and not to bless in/on/with way: conduct bad: evil
15 Avoid it may not you pass along on it turn aside from on it and pass on.
to neglect him not to pass in/on/with him to turn aside from upon him and to pass
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 not to sleep if: until not be evil and to plunder sleep their if: until not (to stumble *Q(K)*)
17 For they eat [the] bread of wickedness and [the] wine of violence they drink.
for to feed on food: bread wickedness and wine violence to 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.
and way righteous like/as light brightness to go: continue and to light till to establish: prepare [the] day
19 [the] way of Wicked [people] [is] like darkness not they know on what? are they stumbling.
way: conduct wicked like/as darkness not to know in/on/with what? to stumble
20 O son my to words my be attentive! to utterances my incline ear your.
son: child my to/for word my to listen [emph?] to/for word my to stretch ear your
21 Do not let them depart from eyes your keep them in [the] midst of heart your.
not be devious from eye: seeing your to keep: obey them in/on/with midst heart your
22 For [are] life they to [those who] find them and to all flesh his health.
for life they(masc.) to/for to find them and to/for all flesh his healing
23 More than all guarding guard heart your for [are] from it [the] sources of life.
from all custody to watch heart your for from him outgoing life
24 Remove from yourself crookedness of mouth and deviousness of lips put far away from yourself.
to turn aside: remove from you crookedness lip: word and perversity lip: words to remove from you
25 Eyes your before let them look and eyelids your let them look straight before you.
eye your to/for before to look and eyelid your to smooth before you
26 Make level [the] track of foot your and all ways your let them be steadfast.
to envy track foot your and all way: conduct your to establish: establish
27 May not you turn aside right and left turn aside foot your from evil.
not to stretch right and left to turn aside: depart foot your from bad: evil
