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OET (OET-LV) And see, one having_approached to_him said:
Teacher, what good may_I_do in_order_that I_may_have eternal life?
OET (OET-RV) And look, a man approached Yeshua and asked him, “Teacher, what good thing do I need to do in order to have eternal life?”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / exclamations
ἰδοὺ
behold
Here, the word behold draws the attention of the audience and asks them to listen carefully. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express behold with a word or phrase that asks the audience to listen, or you could draw the audience’s attention in another way. Alternate translation: “picture this” or “suddenly”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
εἷς
one
Matthew is using the number one as a noun to mean one person. Your language may use numbers in the same way. If not, you could translate this one with an equivalent phrase. Alternate translation: “one man”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
σχῶ ζωὴν αἰώνιον
˱I˲_/may/_have life eternal
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of life, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “I might live eternally”
OET (OET-LV) And see, one having_approached to_him said:
Teacher, what good may_I_do in_order_that I_may_have eternal life?
OET (OET-RV) And look, a man approached Yeshua and asked him, “Teacher, what good thing do I need to do in order to have eternal life?”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and English gloss (7th line) are all thanks to the SR-GNT.