PRO 4:20 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Υἱὲ ἐμῇ ῥήσει πρόσεχε, τοῖς δὲ ἐμοῖς λόγοις παράβαλλε σὸν οὖς.
(Huie emaʸ ɽaʸsei proseⱪe, tois de emois logois paraballe son ous. )

ULT My son, listen attentively to my words;
⇔ incline your ear to my sayings.

UST My son, pay attention to what I am saying to you!
⇔ Listen carefully to what I say!

BSB ⇔ My son, pay attention to my words;
⇔ incline your ear to my sayings.

OEB ⇔ My son, listen to my words.
⇔ Bend your ear to the things that I say.

WEBBE ⇔ My son, attend to my words.
⇔ Turn your ear to my sayings.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET My child, pay attention to my words;
⇔ listen attentively to my sayings.

LSV My son, give attention to my words,
Incline your ear to my sayings,

FBV My son, pay attention to what I tell you; listen to the words I'm saying.

T4T ⇔ My son, pay attention to what I am saying.
⇔ Listen to my words carefully.

LEB • to my sayings incline your ear.

BBE My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

Moff No Moff PRO book available

JPS My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

ASV ⇔ My son, attend to my words;
⇔ Incline thine ear unto my sayings.

DRA My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.

YLT My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,

Drby My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

RV My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Wbstr My son, attend to my words; incline thy ear to my sayings.

KJB-1769 ¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
(¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine/your ear unto my sayings. )

KJB-1611 ¶ My sonne, attend to my words, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps My sonne marke my wordes, and encline thyne eare vnto my sayinges:
(My son mark my words, and incline thine/your ear unto my sayings:)

Gnva My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
(My son, hearken unto my words, incline thine/your ear unto my sayings. )

Cvdl My sonne, marcke my wordes, and enclyne thine eare vnto my saynges.
(My son, marcke my words, and enclyne thine/your ear unto my sayings.)

Wycl Mi sone, herkene thou my wordis; and bowe doun thin eeris to my spechis.
(Mi son, herkene thou/you my words; and bow down thin ears to my spechis.)

Luth Mein Sohn, merke auf mein Wort und neige dein Ohr zu meiner Rede!
(My son, merke on my Wort and neige your Ohr to my Rede!)

ClVg Fili mi, ausculta sermones meos, et ad eloquia mea inclina aurem tuam.[fn]
(Fili mi, ausculta sermones meos, and to elobecause mea inclina aurem tuam. )

4.20 Fili mi, ausculta sermones meos. Auscultandum monet sermonibus suis, et recedendum a cogitationibus pravis.

4.20 Fili mi, ausculta sermones meos. Auscultandum monet sermonibus to_his_own, and recedendum from cogitationibus pravis.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations

בְּ֭נִ⁠י

son_of,my

See how you translated the same use of this phrase in 1:8.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

לִ⁠דְבָרַ֣⁠י הַקְשִׁ֑יבָ⁠ה לַ֝⁠אֲמָרַ֗⁠י הַט־אָזְנֶֽ⁠ךָ

to,words_of,my attentive, to,sayings_of,my incline ear_of,your

These two clauses mean basically the same thing. The second clause emphasizes the meaning of the first by repeating the same idea with different words. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could connect the clauses with a word that shows that the second clause is repeating the first one, not saying something additional. Alternate translation: “listen attentively to my words, yes, incline your ear to my sayings”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

לִ⁠דְבָרַ֣⁠י

to,words_of,my

See how you translated my words in 1:23.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

הַט־אָזְנֶֽ⁠ךָ

incline ear_of,your

The phrase incline your ear is an idiom that refers to listening carefully to what someone is saying as if the listener was turning his ear toward the person speaking. If this phrase does not have that meaning in your language, you could use an idiom from your language that does have this meaning or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “listen carefully”

Parallel PRO 4:20