< Proverbs 4 >
1 Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.
to hear: hear son: descendant/people discipline: instruction father and to listen to/for to know understanding
2 For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.
for teaching pleasant to give: give to/for you instruction my not to leave: neglect
3 For, a son I have been to my father — tender, And an only one before my mother.
for son: child to be to/for father my tender and only to/for face mother my
4 And he directeth me, and he saith to me: 'Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, 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 Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.
to buy wisdom to buy understanding not to forget and not to stretch from word lip my
6 Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.
not to leave: forsake her and to keep: obey you to love: lover her and to watch you
7 The first thing [is] wisdom — get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding.
first: beginning wisdom to buy wisdom and in/on/with all acquisition your to buy understanding
8 Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her.
to build her and to exalt you to honor: honour you for to embrace her
9 She giveth to thy head a wreath of grace, A crown of beauty she doth give thee freely.
to give: put to/for head your wreath favor crown beauty to deliver you
10 Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life [are] multiplied to thee.
to hear: hear son: child my and to take: recieve word my and to multiply to/for you year life
11 In a way of wisdom I have directed thee, I have caused thee to tread in paths of uprightness.
in/on/with way: conduct wisdom to show you to tread you in/on/with track uprightness
12 In thy walking thy step is not straitened, And if thou runnest, thou stumblest not.
in/on/with to go: walk you not be distressed step your and if to run: run not to stumble
13 Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she [is] thy life.
to strengthen: hold in/on/with discipline: instruction not to slacken to watch her for he/she/it life your
14 Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.
in/on/with way wicked not to come (in): come and not to bless in/on/with way: conduct bad: evil
15 Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from 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 they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not [some] to stumble.
for not to sleep if: until not be evil and to plunder sleep their if: until not (to stumble *Q(K)*)
17 For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.
for to feed on food: bread wickedness and wine violence to drink
18 And the path of the righteous [is] as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,
and way righteous like/as light brightness to go: continue and to light till to establish: prepare [the] day
19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
way: conduct wicked like/as darkness not to know in/on/with what? to stumble
20 My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,
son: child my to/for word my to listen [emph?] to/for word my to stretch ear your
21 Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.
not be devious from eye: seeing your to keep: obey them in/on/with midst heart your
22 For life they [are] to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.
for life they(masc.) to/for to find them and to/for all flesh his healing
23 Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it [are] the outgoings of life.
from all custody to watch heart your for from him outgoing life
24 Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,
to turn aside: remove from you crookedness lip: word and perversity lip: words to remove from you
25 Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.
eye your to/for before to look and eyelid your to smooth before you
26 Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways [are] established.
to envy track foot your and all way: conduct your to establish: establish
27 Incline not [to] the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!
not to stretch right and left to turn aside: depart foot your from bad: evil