Proverbs 4

1 to hear: hear son: descendant/people discipline: instruction father and to listen to/for to know understanding

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

2 for teaching pleasant to give: give to/for you instruction my not to leave: neglect

For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my teaching.

3 for son: child to be to/for father my tender and only to/for face mother my

For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one 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

And he taught me, and said unto me: 'Let thy heart hold fast 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

Get wisdom, get understanding; forget not, neither decline 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

Forsake her not, and she will preserve 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 beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom; yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

8 to build her and to exalt you to honor: honour you for to embrace her

Extol her, and she will exalt thee; 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 to thy head a chaplet of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow on thee.'

10 to hear: hear son: child my and to take: recieve word my and to multiply to/for you year life

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

11 in/on/with way: conduct wisdom to show you to tread you in/on/with track uprightness

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in paths 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 goest, thy step shall not be straitened; 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 instruction, 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

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and walk not 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, pass not 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 *QK)

For they sleep not, except they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to 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 righteous is as the light of dawn, that shineth more and more unto 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 as 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, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto 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 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 they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

23 from all custody to watch heart your for from him outgoing life

Above all that thou guardest keep 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

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

25 eye your to/for before to look and eyelid your to smooth before you

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

26 to envy track foot your and all way: conduct your to establish: establish

Make plain the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

27 not to stretch right and left to turn aside: depart foot your from bad: evil

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.