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Proverbs - ch 4 v 1 - 20
- Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.
- For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.
- For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother.
- And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.
- Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.
- Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.
- The first thing `is' wisdom -- get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding.
- Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her.
- She giveth to thy head a wreath of grace, A crown of beauty she doth give thee freely.
- Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life `are' multiplied to thee.
- In a way of wisdom I have directed thee, I have caused thee to tread in paths of uprightness.
- In thy walking thy step is not straitened, And if thou runnest, thou stumblest not.
- Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she `is' thy life.
- Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.
- Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.
- For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not `some' to stumble.
- For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.
- And the path of the righteous `is' as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,
- The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
- My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,
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