Proverbs 4
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| 1 | Heare, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know vnderstanding. |
| 2 | For I giue you good doctrine: forsake you not my law. |
| 3 | For I was my fathers sonne, tender and onely beloued in the sight of my mother. |
| 4 | He taught me also, and said vnto me, Let thine heart reteine my wordes: keepe my commandements, and liue. |
| 5 | Get wisedome, get vnderstanding: forget it not, neither decline from the wordes of my mouth. |
| 6 | Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee: loue her, and she shall keepe thee. |
| 7 | Wisedome is the principall thing, therefore get wisedome: and with all thy getting, get vnderstanding. |
| 8 | Exalt her, and shee shall promote thee: shee shall bring thee to honour, when thou doest imbrace her. |
| 9 | She shall giue to thine head an ornament of grace, a crowne of glory shall she deliuer to thee. |
| 10 | Heare, O my sonne, and receiue my sayings: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many. |
| 11 | I haue taught thee in the way of wisedome: I haue lead thee in right pathes. |
| 12 | When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitned, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. |
| 13 | Take fast hold of instruction, let her not goe; keepe her, for she is thy life. |
| 14 | Enter not into the path of the wicked, and goe not in the way of euill men. |
| 15 | Auoid it, passe not by it, turne from it, and passe away. |
| 16 | For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and their sleepe is taken away vnlesse they cause some to fall. |
| 17 | For they eate the bread of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence. |
| 18 | But the path of the iust is as the shining light that shineth more and more vnto the perfect day. |
| 19 | The way of the wicked is as darknes: they know not at what they stumble. |
| 20 | My sonne, attend to my words, incline thine eare vnto my sayings. |
| 21 | Let them not depart from thine eyes: keepe them in the midst of thine heart. |
| 22 | For they are life vnto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. |
| 23 | Keepe thy heart with all diligence: for out of it are the issues of life. |
| 24 | Put away from thee a froward mouth, and peruerse lips put farre from thee. |
| 25 | Let thine eyes looke right on, and let thine eye lids looke straight before thee. |
| 26 | Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy wayes be established. |
| 27 | Turne not to the right hande nor to the left: remoue thy foot frō euil. |