Proverbs 4

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¹ Hear, O children, a father's instruction, be attentive, that you may gain understanding!	¹ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
² Yes, excellent advice I give you; my teaching do not forsake.	² For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
³ When I was my father's child, frail, yet the darling of my mother,	³ For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
⁴ He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart hold fast my words: keep my commands, that you may 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 understanding! Do not forget or turn aside from the words I utter.	⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
⁶ Forsake her not, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will safeguard you;	⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
⁷ The beginning of wisdom is: get wisdom; at the cost of all you have, get understanding.	⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
⁸ Extol her, and she will exalt you; she will bring you honors if you embrace her;	⁸ Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
⁹ She will put on your head a graceful diadem; a glorious crown will she bestow on you."	⁹ She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
¹⁰ Hear, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life shall be many.	¹⁰ Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
¹¹ On the way of wisdom I direct you, I lead you on straightforward paths.	¹¹ I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
¹² When you walk, your step will not be impeded, and should you run, you will not stumble.	¹² When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
¹³ Hold fast to instruction, never let her go; keep her, for she is your life.	¹³ Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
¹⁴ The path of the wicked enter not, walk not on the way of evil men;	¹⁴ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
¹⁵ Shun it, cross it not, turn aside from it, and pass on.	¹⁵ Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
¹⁶ For they cannot rest unless they have done evil; to have made no one stumble steals away their sleep.	¹⁶ For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.	¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
¹⁸ But the path of the just is like shining light, that grows in brilliance till 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 like darkness; they know not on what they stumble.	¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
²⁰ My son, to my words be attentive, to my sayings incline your ear;	²⁰ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
²¹ Let them not slip out of your sight, keep them within your heart;	²¹ Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
²² For they are life to those who find them, to man's whole being they are health.	²² For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
²³ With closest custody, guard your heart, for in it are the sources of life.	²³ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
²⁴ Put away from you dishonest talk, deceitful speech put far from you.	²⁴ Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
²⁵ Let your eyes look straight ahead and your glance be directly forward.	²⁵ Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
²⁶ Survey the path for your feet, and let all your ways be sure.	²⁶ Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
²⁷ Turn neither to right nor to left, keep your foot far from evil.	²⁷ Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

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