Proverbs 4

1 My children, listen to what I am teaching you. If you pay attention, you will understand what is wise.

Listen to O children [the] correction of a father and be attentive to know understanding.

2 What I am teaching you is good, so do not turn away from it.

For instruction good I give to you instruction my may not you neglect.

3 When I was a young boy, loved by my mother,

If a son I was of father my tender and only [child] before mother my.

4 my father told me, “Remember my words; if you obey my commandments, you will live [a long time].

And he taught me and he said to me let it hold fast to words my heart your keep commandments my and live.

5 Obtain wisdom and understanding, and (do not abandon/hold fast to) [LIT] what I have taught you.

Acquire wisdom acquire understanding may not you forget and may not you turn aside from [the] utterances of mouth my.

6 Do not turn away from wisdom, because if you are wise, you will be protected [from all evil/danger]. If you love wisdom, wisdom [PRS] will guard you.

May not you abandon her and she will keep you love her and she will guard you.

7 The most important thing that you can do is to get wisdom. Even if you obtain many other things, the best thing is to know what things are wise.

[is] first Wisdom acquire wisdom and by all acquisition your acquire understanding.

8 If you consider being wise to be very valuable, [people] will think very highly of you. If you cling to wisdom [like you would cling to a woman you love], [many people] will honor you.

Esteem her and she will exalt you she will honor you if you will embrace her.

9 If you become wise, that will for you be [like] a beautiful wreath that is put {someone puts} on your head; it will be [like] a king’s glorious crown.” [That is what my father told me].

She will put to head your a wreath of grace a crown of beauty she will give you.

10 [So now I say], “My son, heed what I say. If you do that, you will live a [good] long life.

Listen O son my and receive words my so they may increase for you years of life.

11 I am teaching you the way to live wisely; I am showing you how to act justly [toward others].

[the] way of Wisdom I taught you I led you in tracks of uprightness.

12 If you live wisely, when you decide to do something, you will succeed [LIT].

When walking you not anyone will hinder step[s] your and if you will run not you will stumble.

13 Hold fast to the things I have taught you to do, and do not let them go. Guard them, because they [will be the source of a good] life.

Take hold on discipline may not you let go keep her for she [is] life your.

14 Do not do the things that wicked people do; [do not behave like they do]; do not even walk on the roads that evil [people] walk on [MET].

In [the] path of wicked [people] may not you go and may not you advance in [the] way of evil [people].

15 Stay away from those roads; turn aside and walk on other roads;

Avoid it may not you pass along on it turn aside from on it and pass on.

16 because evil people cannot sleep if they have not done some evil deed [on that day]. They cannot rest if they have not harmed someone.

For not they will sleep if not they do harm and it is taken away sleep their if not (they bring injury. *QK)

17 What they eat and what they drink are things that they have obtained by acting wickedly and violently.”

For they eat [the] bread of wickedness and [the] wine of violence they drink.

18 The behavior of good/righteous [people] is like the light [that begins to shine] at dawn and then [continues to] shine brighter until the brightest time of day.

And [the] path of righteous [people] [is] like a light of brightness [which] goes and [which] shines until [the] established [part] of the day.

19 [But] the behavior of wicked [people] is like deep/thick darkness. [Because it is very dark], they cannot see the things that cause them to stumble.

[the] way of Wicked [people] [is] like darkness not they know on what? are they stumbling.

20 My son, pay attention to what I am saying. Listen to my words carefully.

O son my to words my be attentive! to utterances my incline ear your.

21 Keep them close to you; let them penetrate your inner being,

Do not let them depart from eyes your keep them in [the] midst of heart your.

22 because you will have [PRS] [a good] life and [good] health if you [search for them and] find them.

For [are] life they to [those who] find them and to all flesh his health.

23 It is very important that you be careful about what you think, because what you think controls [MET] the things that you do.

More than all guarding guard heart your for [are] from it [the] sources of life.

24 Do not say anything that deceives [others] and never say what is not true.

Remove from yourself crookedness of mouth and deviousness of lips put far away from yourself.

25 Keep looking straight ahead toward the events that are before you, and do not turn aside.

Eyes your before let them look and eyelids your let them look straight before you.

26 Plan carefully where you will go and what you will do, and then stay on that road. Then what you do will be right.

Make level [the] track of foot your and all ways your let them be steadfast.

27 Do not leave the straight road by turning to the left or to the right. [Do only what is right] and keep yourself from [doing what is] evil.

May not you turn aside right and left turn aside foot your from evil.