Proverbs 4
1 to hear: hear son: descendant/people discipline: instruction father and to listen to/for to know understanding
Sh'ma ·Hear obey·, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
2 for teaching pleasant to give: give to/for you instruction my not to leave: neglect
for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my Torah ·Teaching·.
3 for son: child to be to/for father my tender and only to/for face mother my
For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child 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
He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my mitzvot ·instructions·, and live.
5 to buy wisdom to buy understanding not to forget and not to stretch from word lip my
Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
6 not to leave: forsake her and to keep: obey you to love: lover her and to watch you
Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. 'Ahav ·Affectionately love· her, and she will keep you.
7 first: beginning wisdom to buy wisdom and in/on/with all acquisition your to buy understanding
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
8 to build her and to exalt you to honor: honour you for to embrace her
Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
9 to give: put to/for head your wreath favor crown beauty to deliver you
She will give to your head a garland of chen ·grace·. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”
10 to hear: hear son: child my and to take: recieve word my and to multiply to/for you year life
Sh'ma ·Hear obey·, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
11 in/on/with way: conduct wisdom to show you to tread you in/on/with track uprightness
I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.
12 in/on/with to go: walk you not be distressed step your and if to run: run not to stumble
When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.
13 to strengthen: hold in/on/with discipline: instruction not to slacken to watch her for he/she/it life your
Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
14 in/on/with way wicked not to come (in): come and not to bless in/on/with way: conduct bad: evil
Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
15 to neglect him not to pass in/on/with him to turn aside from upon him and to pass
Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
16 for not to sleep if: until not be evil and to plunder sleep their if: until not (to stumble *Q(K)*)
For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
17 for to feed on food: bread wickedness and wine violence to drink
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
18 and way righteous like/as light brightness to go: continue and to light till to establish: prepare [the] day
But the path of the upright is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
19 way: conduct wicked like/as darkness not to know in/on/with what? to stumble
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
20 son: child my to/for word my to listen [emph?] to/for word my to stretch ear your
My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
21 not be devious from eye: seeing your to keep: obey them in/on/with midst heart your
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.
22 for life they(masc.) to/for to find them and to/for all flesh his healing
For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.
23 from all custody to watch heart your for from him outgoing life
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
24 to turn aside: remove from you crookedness lip: word and perversity lip: words to remove from you
Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
25 eye your to/for before to look and eyelid your to smooth before you
Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
26 to envy track foot your and all way: conduct your to establish: establish
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
27 not to stretch right and left to turn aside: depart foot your from bad: evil
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
