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