Proverbs 4

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¹ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence.	¹ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
² I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.	² For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
³ For I also was my father's son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother:	³ For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
⁴ And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.	⁴ He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
⁵ Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.	⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.	⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
⁷ The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.	⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
⁸ Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her.	⁸ Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
⁹ She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.	⁹ She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
¹⁰ Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.	¹⁰ Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
¹¹ I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:	¹¹ I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
¹² Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock.	¹² When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
¹³ Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.	¹³ Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
¹⁴ Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.	¹⁴ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
¹⁵ Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.	¹⁵ Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
¹⁶ For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.	¹⁶ For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
¹⁷ They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.	¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
¹⁸ But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards and increaseth even to perfect day.	¹⁸ But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
¹⁹ The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.	¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
²⁰ My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.	²⁰ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
²¹ Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:	²¹ Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
²² For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.	²² For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
²³ With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.	²³ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
²⁴ Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.	²⁴ Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
²⁵ Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.	²⁵ Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
²⁶ Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.	²⁶ Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
²⁷ Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.	²⁷ Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

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