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Prouerbs 4

¹Heare, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know vnderstanding.

²For I giue you good doctrine: forsake you not my law.

³For I was my fathers sonne, tender and onely beloued in the sight of my mother.

⁴He taught me also, and said vnto me, Let thine heart reteine my wordes: keepe my commandements, and liue.

⁵Get wisedome, get vnderstanding: forget it not, neither decline from the wordes of my mouth.

⁶Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee: loue her, and she shall keepe thee.

⁷Wisedome is the principall thing, therefore get wisedome: and with all thy getting, get vnderstanding.

⁸Exalt her, and shee shall promote thee: shee shall bring thee to honour, when thou doest imbrace her.

⁹She shall giue to thine head an ornament of grace, a crowne of glory shall she deliuer to thee.

¹⁰Heare, O my sonne, and receiue my sayings: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.

¹¹I haue taught thee in the way of wisedome: I haue lead thee in right pathes.

¹²When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitned, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

¹³Take fast hold of instruction, let her not goe; keepe her, for she is thy life.

¹⁴Enter not into the path of the wicked, and goe not in the way of euill men.

¹⁵Auoid it, passe not by it, turne from it, and passe away.

¹⁶For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and their sleepe is taken away vnlesse they cause some to fall.

¹⁷For they eate the bread of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.

¹⁸But the path of the iust is as the shining light that shineth more and more vnto the perfect day.

¹⁹The way of the wicked is as darknes: they know not at what they stumble.

²⁰My sonne, attend to my words, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.

²¹Let them not depart from thine eyes: keepe them in the midst of thine heart.

²²For they are life vnto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

²³Keepe thy heart with all diligence: for out of it are the issues of life.

²⁴Put away from thee a froward mouth, and peruerse lips put farre from thee.

²⁵Let thine eyes looke right on, and let thine eye lids looke straight before thee.

²⁶Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy wayes be established.

²⁷Turne not to the right hande nor to the left: remoue thy foot fro euil.