Proverbs 4
1 to hear: hear son: descendant/people discipline: instruction father and to listen to/for to know understanding
Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:
2 for teaching pleasant to give: give to/for you instruction my not to leave: neglect
For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.
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, a gentle and an only one to 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
And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:
5 to buy wisdom to buy understanding not to forget and not to stretch from word lip my
Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away 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
Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.
7 first: beginning wisdom to buy wisdom and in/on/with all acquisition your to buy understanding
The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.
8 to build her and to exalt you to honor: honour you for to embrace her
Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.
9 to give: put to/for head your wreath favor crown beauty to deliver you
She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory.
10 to hear: hear son: child my and to take: recieve word my and to multiply to/for you year life
Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.
11 in/on/with way: conduct wisdom to show you to tread you in/on/with track uprightness
I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.
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 way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.
13 to strengthen: hold in/on/with discipline: instruction not to slacken to watch her for he/she/it life your
Take learning in your hands, do not 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
Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking 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
Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.
16 for not to sleep if: until not be evil and to plunder sleep their if: until not (to stumble *QK)
For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
17 for to feed on food: bread wickedness and wine violence to drink
The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
18 and way righteous like/as light brightness to go: continue and to light till to establish: prepare [the] day
But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.
19 way: conduct wicked like/as darkness not to know in/on/with what? to stumble
The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
20 son: child my to/for word my to listen [emph?] to/for word my to stretch ear your
My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.
21 not be devious from eye: seeing your to keep: obey them in/on/with midst heart your
Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.
22 for life they(masc.) to/for to find them and to/for all flesh his healing
For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.
23 from all custody to watch heart your for from him outgoing life
And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
24 to turn aside: remove from you crookedness lip: word and perversity lip: words to remove from you
Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.
25 eye your to/for before to look and eyelid your to smooth before you
Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.
26 to envy track foot your and all way: conduct your to establish: establish
Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.
27 not to stretch right and left to turn aside: depart foot your from bad: evil
Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.
