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| 4:1 | Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. |
| 4:2 | For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. |
| 4:3 | For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. |
| 4:4 | He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. |
| 4:5 | Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. |
| 4:6 | Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. |
| 4:7 | Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. |
| 4:8 | Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. |
| 4:9 | She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. |
| 4:10 | Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. |
| 4:11 | I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. |
| 4:12 | When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. |
| 4:13 | Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life. |
| 4:14 | Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. |
| 4:15 | Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. |
| 4:16 | For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. |
| 4:17 | For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. |
| 4:18 | But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. |
| 4:19 | The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. |
| 4:20 | My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. |
| 4:21 | Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. |
| 4:22 | For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. |
| 4:23 | Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. |
| 4:24 | Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. |
| 4:25 | Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. |
| 4:26 | Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. |
| 4:27 | Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. |
| 4:1 | Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding. |
| 4:2 | For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe. |
| 4:3 | For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother, |
| 4:4 | When he taught me, and sayde vnto me, Let thine heart holde fast my woordes: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue. |
| 4:5 | Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth. |
| 4:6 | Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee. |
| 4:7 | Wisedome is the beginning: get wisedome therefore: and aboue all thy possession get vnderstanding. |
| 4:8 | Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her. |
| 4:9 | She shall giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shall giue thee a crowne of glorie. |
| 4:10 | Heare, my sonne, and receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many. |
| 4:11 | I haue taught thee in ye way of wisedom, and led thee in the pathes of righteousnesse. |
| 4:12 | Whe thou goest, thy gate shall not be strait, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall. |
| 4:13 | Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee is thy life. |
| 4:14 | Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men. |
| 4:15 | Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by. |
| 4:16 | For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall. |
| 4:17 | For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence. |
| 4:18 | But the way of the righteous shineth as the light, that shineth more and more vnto the perfite day. |
| 4:19 | The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall. |
| 4:20 | My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings. |
| 4:21 | Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart. |
| 4:22 | For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh. |
| 4:23 | Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life. |
| 4:24 | Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee. |
| 4:25 | Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyelids direct thy way before thee. |
| 4:26 | Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright. |
| 4:27 | Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill. |
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