InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Ecc C1 C2 C3 C4 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12
Ecc 5 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV (ECC 4:17) [fn] Guard mmm[fn] just_as you_will_go to the_house_of the_ʼElohīm and_draw_near to_listen more_ the_fools _than_to_give a_sacrifice if/because not_they are_knowing for_doing evil.
OET (OET-RV) Watch your step when you go to God’s house.
⇔ Going in to listen is better than fools who offer sacrifices,
⇔ because they don’t realise that what they’re doing there is evil.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
שְׁמֹ֣ר רגליך
guard רגלי,ך
Solomon is using Keep your feet as a common expression of the culture to mean “behave carefully.” If this phrase does not have that meaning for your readers, you could use a comparable expression from your language that does have that meaning, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [Be careful how you act]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
בֵּ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים
house_of the=ʼElohīm
Solomon is speaking of the temple of God as if it were a house in which he lived. Alternate translation: [the place where God lives]
Note 3 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
שְׁמֹ֣ר רגליך כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר תֵּלֵךְ֙ אֶל בֵּ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים וְקָר֣וֹב לִשְׁמֹ֔עַ מִתֵּ֥ת הַכְּסִילִ֖ים זָ֑בַח כִּֽי אֵינָ֥ם יוֹדְעִ֖ים לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת רָֽע
guard רגלי,ך just=as go to/towards house_of the=ʼElohīm and,draw_near to,listen more,than_to_give the,fools sacrifice that/for/because/then/when not,they know for=doing evil
The word translated as for indicates that what follows is a reason for what came before. Use a connector in your language that makes it clear that what follows is a reason for what came before. Alternate translation: [Keep your feet when you go to the house of God. And drawing near to listen is better than fools giving a sacrifice, because they are not knowing that they do evil]
Note 4 topic: writing-pronouns
אֵינָ֥ם יוֹדְעִ֖ים לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת רָֽע
not,they know for=doing evil
The pronoun they refers to the fools. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: [the fools do not know that they do evil]
OET-LV (ECC 4:17) [fn] Guard mmm[fn] just_as you_will_go to the_house_of the_ʼElohīm and_draw_near to_listen more_ the_fools _than_to_give a_sacrifice if/because not_they are_knowing for_doing evil.
OET (OET-RV) Watch your step when you go to God’s house.
⇔ Going in to listen is better than fools who offer sacrifices,
⇔ because they don’t realise that what they’re doing there is evil.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.