Proverbs 4
1 to hear: hear son: descendant/people discipline: instruction father and to listen to/for to know understanding
Listen, sons, to a father's instruction, and pay attention so you will know what understanding is.
2 for teaching pleasant to give: give to/for you instruction my not to leave: neglect
I am giving you good instructions; do not forsake my teaching.
3 for son: child to be to/for father my tender and only to/for face mother my
When I was a son of my father, the tender and only child 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 hold fast to my words; keep my commands and live.
5 to buy wisdom to buy understanding not to forget and not to stretch from word lip my
Acquire wisdom and understanding; do not forget and do not reject the words of my mouth;
6 not to leave: forsake her and to keep: obey you to love: lover her and to watch you
do not abandon wisdom and she will watch over you; love her and she will keep you safe.
7 first: beginning wisdom to buy wisdom and in/on/with all acquisition your to buy understanding
Wisdom is the most important thing, so acquire wisdom and spend all you own so you can get understanding.
8 to build her and to exalt you to honor: honour you for to embrace her
Cherish wisdom and she will exalt you; she will honor you when you embrace her.
9 to give: put to/for head your wreath favor crown beauty to deliver you
She will put a wreath of honor on your head; she will give you a beautiful crown.”
10 to hear: hear son: child my and to take: recieve word my and to multiply to/for you year life
Listen, my son, and pay attention to my words, and you will have many years in your life.
11 in/on/with way: conduct wisdom to show you to tread you in/on/with track uprightness
I direct you in the way of wisdom; I lead you down 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 walk, no one will stand in your way and if 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
Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it, for it 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
Do not follow the path of the wicked and do not go along the way of those who do evil.
15 to neglect him not to pass in/on/with him to turn aside from upon him and to pass
Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it and go another way.
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 until they do evil and they are robbed of sleep until they cause someone to stumble.
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 righteous people is like the first light that grows brighter; it shines more and more until the fullness of the day comes.
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 do not know what it is they stumble over.
20 son: child my to/for word my to listen [emph?] to/for word my to stretch ear your
My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
21 not be devious from eye: seeing your to keep: obey them in/on/with midst heart your
Do not let them turn away from your eyes; keep them in your heart.
22 for life they(masc.) to/for to find them and to/for all flesh his healing
For my words 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 safe and guard it with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.
24 to turn aside: remove from you crookedness lip: word and perversity lip: words to remove from you
Put crooked speech away from you and put corrupt talk far from you.
25 eye your to/for before to look and eyelid your to smooth before you
Let your eyes look straight ahead and fix your gaze straight before you.
26 to envy track foot your and all way: conduct your to establish: establish
Make a level path for your foot; then all your ways will be secure.
27 not to stretch right and left to turn aside: depart foot your from bad: evil
Do not turn aside to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.
