Proverbs 4
New International Reader's Version
Get Wisdom at Any Cost
4 My sons, listen to a father’s teaching.
Pay attention and gain understanding.
2 I give you good advice.
So don’t turn away from what I teach you.
3 I, too, was once a young boy in my father’s house.
And my mother loved me deeply.
4 Then my father taught me.
He said to me, “Take hold of my words with all your heart.
Keep my commands, and you will live.
5 Get wisdom, and get understanding.
Don’t forget my words or turn away from them.
6 Stay close to wisdom, and she will keep you safe.
Love her, and she will watch over you.
7 To start being wise you must first get wisdom.
No matter what it costs, get understanding.
8 Value wisdom highly, and she will lift you up.
Hold her close, and she will honor you.
9 She will set a beautiful crown on your head.
She will give you a glorious crown.”
10 My son, listen. Accept what I say.
Then you will live for many years.
11 I instruct you in the way of wisdom.
I lead you along straight paths.
12 When you walk, nothing will slow you down.
When you run, you won’t trip and fall.
13 Hold on to my teaching and don’t let it go.
Guard it well, because it is your life.
14 Don’t take the path of evil people.
Don’t live the way sinners do.
15 Stay away from their path and don’t travel on it.
Turn away from it and go on your way.
16 Sinners can’t rest until they do what is evil.
They can’t sleep until they make someone sin.
17 They do evil just as easily as they eat food.
They hurt others as easily as they drink wine.
18 The path of those who do right is like the sun in the morning.
It shines brighter and brighter until the full light of day.
19 But the way of those who do what is wrong is like deep darkness.
They don’t know what makes them trip and fall.
20 My son, pay attention to what I say.
Listen closely to my words.
21 Don’t let them out of your sight.
Keep them in your heart.
22 They are life to those who find them.
They are health to a person’s whole body.
23 Above everything else, guard your heart.
Everything you do comes from it.
24 Don’t speak with twisted words.
Keep evil talk away from your lips.
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead.
Keep looking right in front of you.
26 Think carefully about the paths that your feet walk on.
Always choose the right ways.
27 Don’t turn to the right or left.
Keep your feet from the path of evil.
Proverbe 4
Nouă Traducere În Limba Română
Înţelepciunea este cel mai important lucru
4 Ascultaţi, fiilor, povaţa unui tată;
fiţi atenţi şi veţi dobândi pricepere!
2 Eu vă dau îndrumări bune,
nu respingeţi învăţătura mea!
3 Pe când eram băiat în casa tatălui meu
şi fiul gingaş şi unic al mamei,
4 mi se repeta şi mi se spunea:
„Primeşte cuvintele mele cu toată inima ta,
păstrează îndrumările mele şi vei trăi!
5 Dobândeşte înţelepciunea, dobândeşte priceperea!
Nu uita cuvintele mele şi nu te îndepărta de ele!
6 Nu uita înţelepciunea şi ea te va proteja!
Iubeşte-o, şi ea te va ocroti!
7 Înţelepciunea este cea mai importantă;
de aceea dobândeşte înţelepciunea
şi, cu orice preţ[a], dobândeşte priceperea!
8 Preţuieşte-o şi ea te va înălţa;
îmbrăţişeaz-o şi ea îţi va aduce onoare!
9 Ea îţi va pune pe cap o cunună graţioasă,
îţi va da o coroană frumoasă.“
10 Ascultă, fiul meu, acceptă cuvintele mele
şi anii vieţii tale vor fi lungi!
11 Eu te îndrum pe calea înţelepciunii
şi te conduc de-a lungul cărărilor drepte.
12 Când vei merge, paşii nu-ţi vor fi tulburaţi;
când vei alerga, nu te vei împiedica.
13 Perseverează în învăţătură, nu o neglija!
Păstreaz-o, căci ea este viaţa ta!
14 Nu-ţi pune piciorul pe cărarea ticăloşilor
şi nu merge pe calea oamenilor răi!
15 Evit-o, nu trece pe ea!
Întoarce-te şi mergi pe calea ta!
16 Aceia nu pot să doarmă dacă n-au făcut ceva rău;
le piere somnul dacă nu fac pe cineva să se împiedice.
17 Ei mănâncă pâinea ticăloşiei
şi beau vinul violenţei.
18 Cărarea celor drepţi este ca licărirea zorilor
care străluceşte tot mai mult până în plinul zilei.
19 Dar calea celor răi este ca întunecimea,
ei nu ştiu de ce se vor împiedica.
20 Fiul meu, fii atent la ceea ce îţi spun,
ascultă cu atenţie cuvintele mele!
21 Nu-ţi îndepărta privirea de la ele,
păstrează-le în adâncul inimii tale,
22 căci ele sunt viaţă pentru cei ce le găsesc
şi sănătate pentru tot trupul lor.
23 Păzeşte-ţi inima mai mult decât orice,
căci din ea ies izvoarele vieţii!
24 Îndepărtează înşelăciunea din gura ta
şi înlătură ipocrizia de pe buzele tale!
25 Ochii tăi să privească direct înainte,
şi pleoapele tale să ţintească drept înaintea ta.
26 Netezeşte-ţi cărarea picioarelor tale,
şi toate căile tale să fie trainice.
27 Nu te abate nici la dreapta, nici la stânga!
Îndepărtează-ţi piciorul de la rău!
Footnotes
- Proverbe 4:7 Sau: înţelepciunea; / mai presus de orice
Proverbs 4
American Standard Version
4 Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father,
And attend to know understanding:
2 For I give you good doctrine;
Forsake ye not my [a]law.
3 For I was a son unto my father,
Tender and [b]only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4 And he taught me, and said unto me:
Let thy heart retain my words;
Keep my commandments, and live;
5 Get wisdom, get understanding;
Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth;
6 Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee;
Love her, and she will keep thee.
7 [c]Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom;
Yea, with all [d]thy getting get understanding.
8 Exalt her, and she will promote thee;
She will bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.
9 She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace;
A crown of [e]beauty will she deliver to thee.
10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings;
And the years of thy life shall be many.
11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom;
I have led thee in paths of uprightness.
12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened;
And if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go:
Keep her; for she is thy life.
14 Enter not into the path of the wicked,
And walk not in the way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, pass not by it;
Turn from it, and pass on.
16 For they sleep not, except they do evil;
And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness,
And drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light,
That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
19 The way of the wicked is as darkness:
They know not at what they stumble.
20 My son, attend to my words;
Incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes;
Keep them in the midst of thy heart.
22 For they are life unto those that find them,
And health to all their flesh.
23 Keep thy heart [f]with all diligence;
For out of it are the issues of life.
24 Put away from thee a wayward mouth,
And perverse lips put far from thee.
25 Let thine eyes look right on,
And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
26 [g]Make level the path of thy feet,
And let all thy ways be [h]established.
27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left:
Remove thy foot from evil.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 4:2 Or, teaching
- Proverbs 4:3 Hebrew an only one.
- Proverbs 4:7 Or, The beginning of wisdom is, Get wisdom
- Proverbs 4:7 Or, thou hast gotten
- Proverbs 4:9 Or, glory
- Proverbs 4:23 Or, above all that thou guardest
- Proverbs 4:26 Or, Weigh carefully
- Proverbs 4:26 Or, ordered aright
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