Proverbs 4
1 to hear: hear son: descendant/people discipline: instruction father and to listen to/for to know understanding
Hear, ye sons, the correction of a father, and attend, that ye may know understanding.
2 for teaching pleasant to give: give to/for you instruction my not to leave: neglect
For, good teaching, have I given you, mine instruction, do not ye forsake.
3 for son: child to be to/for father my tender and only to/for face mother my
For, a son, became I to my father, tender and most precious 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
So he taught me, and said to me—Let thy heart, lay hold of my words, Keep my commandments and live!
5 to buy wisdom to buy understanding not to forget and not to stretch from word lip my
Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding, Do not forget, neither decline thou from the sayings of my mouth.
6 not to leave: forsake her and to keep: obey you to love: lover her and to watch you
Do not forsake her, and she will guard thee, —love her and she will keep thee.
7 first: beginning wisdom to buy wisdom and in/on/with all acquisition your to buy understanding
The principal thing, is wisdom, acquire thou wisdom, With all thine acquisition, acquire thou understanding.
8 to build her and to exalt you to honor: honour you for to embrace her
Exalt her, and she will set thee on high, she will bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her:
9 to give: put to/for head your wreath favor crown beauty to deliver you
She will give for thy head, a wreath of beauty, A crown of adorning, will she bestow upon thee.
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 sayings, and they will multiply to thee the years of life.
11 in/on/with way: conduct wisdom to show you to tread you in/on/with track uprightness
In the way of wisdom, have I taught thee, I have guided thee in tracks of uprightness.
12 in/on/with to go: walk you not be distressed step your and if to run: run not to stumble
When thou walkest, thy step shall not be hemmed in, and, if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
13 to strengthen: hold in/on/with discipline: instruction not to slacken to watch her for he/she/it life your
Take fast hold of correction, let her not go, —keep her, for, she, is thy life.
14 in/on/with way wicked not to come (in): come and not to bless in/on/with way: conduct bad: evil
Upon the path of the lawless, do not thou enter, and do not advance in the way of the wicked:
15 to neglect him not to pass in/on/with him to turn aside from upon him and to pass
Avoid it, do not pass thereon—turn from it, and depart.
16 for not to sleep if: until not be evil and to plunder sleep their if: until not (to stumble *Q(K)*)
For they sleep not, unless they can do mischief, —They rob themselves of their sleep, if they cannot cause someone to stumble,
17 for to feed on food: bread wickedness and wine violence to drink
For they consume bread gotten by lawlessness, and, wine obtained by violence, they drink.
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 righteous, is as the light of dawn, —going on and brightening, unto meridian day.
19 way: conduct wicked like/as darkness not to know in/on/with what? to stumble
The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.
20 son: child my to/for word my to listen [emph?] to/for word my to stretch ear your
My son, to my words, attend, to my sayings, incline thou thine ear;
21 not be devious from eye: seeing your to keep: obey them in/on/with midst heart your
Let them not depart from thine eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart;
22 for life they(masc.) to/for to find them and to/for all flesh his healing
For, life, they are, to them who find them, —and, to every part of one’s flesh, they bring healing.
23 from all custody to watch heart your for from him outgoing life
Above all that must be guarded, keep thou thy heart, for, out of it, 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, perverseness of mouth, and, craftiness of lips, put far from thee.
25 eye your to/for before to look and eyelid your to smooth before you
Let, thine eyes, right onward, look, —and, thine eyelashes, point straight before thee.
26 to envy track foot your and all way: conduct your to establish: establish
Make level the track of thy foot, that, all thy ways, may be directed aright:
27 not to stretch right and left to turn aside: depart foot your from bad: evil
Decline not, to the right hand or to the left, —Turn away thy foot from wickedness.
