15 lines
981 B
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15 lines
981 B
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# pay attention to my words
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"listen carefully to what I teach you"
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# you will have many years in your life
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"you will live many years"
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# I direct you in the way of wisdom; I lead you down straight paths
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The writer speaks of teaching his son to live wisely as if he were leading his son along the paths where one may find wisdom. AT: "I am teaching you how to live wisely; I am explaining the right way to live" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# When you walk, no one will stand in your way and if you run, you will not stumble
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These two lines share similar meanings. The writer speaks of the decisions and actions that a person makes as if that person were walking or running along a path and of the person being successful as if the path were free of obstacles that might make the person stumble. AT: "When you plan something, you will succeed in doing it" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]]) |